The Wisdom of the Elders - Brossura

Fleming, Robert

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0345409752 ISBN 13: 9780345409751

Casa editrice: Random House Publishing Group, 1997

Riassunto

More than 150 inspirational meditations and sparks of wit and wisdom are culled from the writings and speeches of African-American figures of renown, from Sojourner Truth to Thurgood Marshall to Barbara Jordan. Reprint.

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L'autore:

Robert Fleming has written for Essence, Black Enterprise, The Source, and the New York Times, among others. A former award-winning reporter for the New York Daily News, he is the author of The African American Writer’s Handbook and The Wisdom of the Elders. His work was featured in Brown Sugar and he was the editor of After Hours.

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hence you came. If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go."
--James Baldwin
In these troubled times, wisdom often seems in short supply. But as this magnificent volume reminds us, African Americans have been blessed with a precious legacy of wisdom, gained through long hard years of struggle by those who have gone before. Wisdom is the most hallowed gift born of experience and endurance.
The life-affirming guidance in The Wisdom of the Elders has been gleaned from this bountiful harvest and includes some of the most electrifying and deeply moving writings and speeches ever produced. Here are the unedited works of such luminaries as Sojourner Truth, W. E. B. DuBois, Martin Luther King Jr., Elijah Muhammad, Lorraine Hansberry, Thurgood Marshall, Zora Neale Hurston, Adam Clayton Powell, Mary McLeod Bethune, Marcus Garvey, Barbara Jordan, Paul Robeson, Jean Toomer, and many others.
The elders' empowering messages and Robert Fleming's interpreta

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• Editore: Random House Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0345409752
• ISBN 13: 9780345409751
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 368