I first read these words as a teenager and theyve haunted me since. You can add Latinos and Asians to whites and blacks. You can add economic to racial. If we---and now I mean the relatively conscious whites and the relatively conscious blacks, who must, like lovers, insist on, or create, the consciousness of the others---do not falter in our duty now, we may be able, handful that we are, to end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country, and change the history of the world. If we do not now dare everything, the fulfillment of that prophecy,re-created from the Bible in song by a slave is upon us: God gave Noah the rainbow sign, No more water the fire next time!” -- James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time, as read by Maya Angelou
Posted on: Sat, 31 May 2014 09:39:19 +0000
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