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WELCOME! It took me a while to welcome you to MySpace, but I am here now and I am happy that you are here, too!
This is a very special spiritual space where first we thank The Mighty One. We thank the one who made us all, who gave us our first dignity as the parents of humanity. To the Great Creator who goes by many names and who is honored in every tongue, here, we give praise.
And it is here that we give praise to our ancestors, those bad ones, those strong ones, those tenacious ones who sacrificed and bought us this far. We thank you ancestors as we call out your names.
We are creative spirit people and our creations are public. Because we are who we are and do what we do, we have unending testing times (private and public). While in the creative process , we experience private and public fear, but our ancient spirit takes us on to experience victory over fear. It ain't easy. It ain't always pleasy. Sometimes it is scary, but it is absolutely necessary. Therefore, do what you do. Do what the spirit say do.
I close my first entry on this MySpace page to you with a quote from my first book "Cornrows." It was marketed to children but the message was for the whole family (it's partially written in ebonics):
There is a spirit that lives inside of you. It keeps on growin. It never dies. Sometimes, when you're afraid, it trembles. An sometimes, when you're hurt and ready to give up, it barely flickers. But it keeps growin. It never dies. Now a long, long time ago, in a land called Africa, our ancient people worked through that spirit. To give life meanin. An to give praise. An through their spirit, gave form to symbols of courage, an honor, an wisdom, an love, an strength. Symbols that live forever. Just to give praise…You see, the spirit of the symbol is not changed by time, place, class, or fame, and not even by hate or shame, oh nooo….You see, it's our spirit that makes the symbols and our spirit goes by many names.
So,
name it Robeson, name it Malcolm, you can name it Dr. King
name it DuBois, name it Garvey
name it something you can sing
name it Tubman, name it Hamer
oh, you can style a Fannie Lou
Name it Nzinga, Rosa Parks
and please name it Hatshepsut too
name it Powell, name it Carver
Richard Wright and Langston Hughes
name Belafonte, name it Baldwin
name it glory, name it blues
name it Miriam, Katherine Dunham
Mary Bethune and Josephine
name it Aretha, name it Nina
name it princess, name it queen
We artists are spirit energy symbols. It is to your spirit that I speak.
Welcome to MySpace!
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