“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” “Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.” “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.” “All generalizations are false, including this one.” “There are three kinds of lies: lies,… Read More Mark Twain on Truth
First Stanza Wild nights! Wild nights! Were I with thee, Wild nights should be Our luxury! The repeated phrase in the first stanza immediately gives the idea that the speaker has experienced something extraordinary. The author suggests that if she and “thee” (the other person) were together then there would be not just one, but… Read More “Wild Nights” by Emily Dickinson (2.analysis)
“Wild Nights” (249) by Emily Dickinson Wild Nights – Wild Nights! Were I with thee Wild Nights should be Our luxury! Futile – the Winds – To a Heart in port – Done with the Compass – Done with the Chart! Rowing in Eden – Ah, the Sea! Might I but moor – Tonight –… Read More “Wild Nights” by Emily Dickinson (1)
As you brush your shoes, stand before the mirror And you comb your hair, grab your coat and hat And you walk the streets trying to remember All the wild night breezes in your memory ever And everything looks so complete When you’re walking out on the streets And the wind, it catches your feet… Read More 🎶 “Wild Night” (Van Morrison)🎶
Il film, il cui titolo originale è “Pájaros de verano” (Uccelli estivi) è ambientato nel nord della Colombia, alla fine degli anni Sessanta. Mostra la vita di una famiglia Wayuu, tribù che vive di pastorizia e di coltivazione, che ha un legame ancestrale con la terra, rispettando la tradizione, le credenze e i riti antichi,… Read More 🎥 CINEFORUM: “Oro Verde – C’era una volta in Colombia”
On 31st March1968, just four days before his assassination, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered a speech at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., inspired by a previous sermon when he had recited parts of the hymn “We shall overcome” to the interfaith congregation at Temple Israel in Hollywood, California. The resonant line of the folk… Read More “We Shall Overcome” – by Martin Luther King, Jr.
In August 1963, Joan Baez led a crowd of 300,000 in several verses taken from “We Shall Overcome” at the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Even President Lyndon Johnson, himself a Southerner, used the phrase “we shall overcome” in a speech delivered after the violent attacks on Civil Rights… Read More 🎶 We Shall Overcome 🎶 (4. Use in protest movements)
In 1957, Pete Seeger, American folk singer and social activist, sang “We Shall Overcome” at the Highlander Folk School to an audience that included Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the young African-American Baptist minister who had become the most visible Civil Rights leader in the United States, who, on the way to his next stop,… Read More 🎶 We Shall Overcome 🎶 (3. Pete Seeger)
We Shall Overcome lyrically descended from a hymn by Rev Tindley called “I’ll Overcome Some Day”, which was first published in 1900. Rev. Dr. Charles Albert Tindley (1851 –1933), the son of a slave, was an American Methodist minister and author of approximately 50 gospel hymns, known as “The Prince of Preachers“. He was a… Read More 🎶 We Shall Overcome 🎶 (2. Origins)
We shall overcome We shall overcome We shall overcome, some day Oh, deep in my heart I do believe We shall overcome, some day We’ll walk hand in hand We’ll walk hand in hand We’ll walk hand in hand, some day Oh, deep in my heart I do believe We shall overcome, some day… Read More 🎶 We Shall Overcome 🎶 (1. Lyrics, introduction, translation)
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