"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day." Ranier Maria Rilke
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Black History
In celebration of Black history month and awesome public speaking, take a listen to one of the most well-written and well-delivered speeches in history, and a personal favorite. Really, listen to the whole thing, it will make you want to cry.
Naive as it is, I hadn't witnessed too many blatant acts of racism (systematic ones aside) until I moved to Seattle.
A friend overheard this on the bus a few months ago: Crazy man to bus driver: You know, that Barack guy speaks pretty well for a black man.
Oh my God. Oh. My. God.
Sorry. The bus quote brought the beauty of that speech down a bit, didn't it? I apologize. And I agree with you about this speech. Unbelievable. Perfect. Thanks for posting it.
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Naive as it is, I hadn't witnessed too many blatant acts of racism (systematic ones aside) until I moved to Seattle.
A friend overheard this on the bus a few months ago:
Crazy man to bus driver: You know, that Barack guy speaks pretty well for a black man.
Oh my God. Oh. My. God.
Sorry. The bus quote brought the beauty of that speech down a bit, didn't it? I apologize. And I agree with you about this speech. Unbelievable. Perfect. Thanks for posting it.
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