The Wisdom of the Elders - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0345394321 ISBN 13: 9780345394323

Verlag: Ballantine Books, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

Daily meditations culled from the writings of such eminent African Americans as Adam Clayton Powell, Josephine Baker, Thurgood Marshall, and Richard Pryor offer inspiration, insight, and humor, treating such subjects as family, community, non-violence, and dignity.

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hence you came. If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go."
--James Baldwin
In these troubled times, wisdom often seems in short supply. But as this magnificent volume reminds us, African Americans have been blessed with a precious legacy of wisdom, gained through long hard years of struggle by those who have gone before. Wisdom is the most hallowed gift born of experience and endurance.
The life-affirming guidance in The Wisdom of the Elders has been gleaned from this bountiful harvest and includes some of the most electrifying and deeply moving writings and speeches ever produced. Here are the unedited works of such luminaries as Sojourner Truth, W. E. B. DuBois, Martin Luther King Jr., Elijah Muhammad, Lorraine Hansberry, Thurgood Marshall, Zora Neale Hurston, Adam Clayton Powell, Mary McLeod Bethune, Marcus Garvey, Barbara Jordan, Paul Robeson, Jean Toomer, and many others.
The elders' empowering messages and Robert Fleming's interpreta

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Ballantine Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0345394321
• ISBN 13: 9780345394323
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 343
• Herausgeber: Fleming Robert
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