BRAVE BLACK & BLUEBY TAJ MADISON

“COURAGE IS THE MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL THE VIRTUES, BECAUSE WITHOUT COURAGE YOU CAN'T PRACTICE ANY OTHER VIRTUE CONSISTENTLY. YOU CAN PRACTICE ANY VIRTUE ERRATICALLY, BUT NOTHING CONSISTENTLY WITHOUT COURAGE.”

Maya Angelou

BRAVE

BRAVE

BOB MARLEY “BUFFALO SOLDIER”

BRAVE

ARETHA FRANKLIN “RESPECT”

BRAVE

SAM COOKE “CHAIN GANG”

“To be African American is to be African without any memory and American without any privilege.”

James Baldwin

BLACK

BLACK

NINA SIMONE “FOREVER YOUNG GIFTED & BLACK”

BLACK

BILL WITHERS “LOVELY DAY”

BLACK

BILLIE HOLIDAY “STRANGE FRUIT

“THE BLUES IS AN IMPULSE TO KEEP THE PAINFUL DETAILS AND EPISODES OF A BRUTAL EXPERIENCE ALIVE IN ONE'S ACHING CONSCIOUSNESS, TO FINGER ITS JAGGED GRAIN, AND TO TRANSCEND IT, NOT BY THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY BUT BY SQUEEZING FROM IT A NEAR-TRAGIC, NEAR-COMIC LYRICISM.”

Ralph Ellison

BRAVE BLACK & BLUE

BLUE

DUKE ELLINGTON “MOOD INDIGO”

BLUE

LOUIS ARMSTRONG “BLACK & BLUE”

BLUE

ROBERT JOHNSON “CROSS ROAD BLUES”