Turning Against The Church I Also Had

I Realized That Most White Americans Knew Very Little About Our History And Our Struggle, And Were Having Difficulty Understanding The Basis For Our Agitation And Our Resistance And Our Complaints. I Also Discovered That While Black Americans Had A Sense Of The Beauty And Tragedy Of The Journey From The Time Of Slavery Until Now, We Were Not Rooted In The Specifics. I Thought One Way To Familiarize People With That History Would Be Through The Voices Of The Great Folk Artists.

I Am A Man Who Perceives Life In A Certain Way, A Man Who Rejects Things That Defecate On Humankind, Who Rejects Anything That Will Not Give People Room For Dissent.

I Think There's A Lot That The Larger Society Could Have Been Taught Or Can Be Taught, But I'm Not Sure - Given How Unyielding The Larger Society Has Been - That Much Has Been Learned.

Poverty Continues To Exist. Its Appearance Seems To Be Relentless In Evidencing Itself Not Only To All The Things We Experience Here In America, But Certainly What We See Globally. And I Don't See Anywhere Any Philosophical Analysis That Suggests We Know How To Get Out Of This.

Turning Against The Church I Also Had To Turn Against A Lot Of The Teachings Of People In My Family Who Were Very Much Of The Church And Caught In It, And Every Time I Turned To Find Where Resides The Good In The Church, All I Saw Was The Demonic, The Lucifer Of The Journey.