Sublime

“The ultimate logic of racism is genocide,”

He was like a farmer trying to convince a sly mule that the way to the feed house went through the plow fields.

“The American people are infected with racism—that is the peril,” King concluded. “Paradoxically, they are also infected with democratic ideals—that is the hope.”

“‘Robert,’ he was addressing me, ‘haven’t some of the people from your school been able to go down and register without violence here in Pike County?’ I thought to myself that Southerners are exposed the most, when they boast.”

Amos—“when justice will roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

creator of the Smithsonian Museum’s “Programs in Black Culture,” and one of the leading authorities on Black American music culture,