If I remember Ellington,
with whom this expression
is very fondly associated,
it's Billy Strayhorn who
comes to mind; if I honor
Martin Luther King, Jr,
I'm not forgetting Bayard
Rustin; when I was a boy,
James Baldwin was writing
stories I needed to hear.
I'm glad as hell, I lived
in my time with such men.
And to see,
the weather
fall upon a
man's faith
without any
consequence
it expects,
has been to
acquire it.
We're here.
Damon Winter
Barack Obama
Glen Allen, Virginia
October, 2008
The New York Times, 2008©
Giuseppe Verdi
Nabucco
III, ii
Va' pensiero
1841-42
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