BRAVE BLACK & BLUE
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BRAVE BLACK & BLUE BY TAJ MADISON
Transcript of BRAVE BLACK & BLUE
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”
