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While I'm not actually an artist myself, I have a fascination with people for whom art

is almost like their first language. I mean, I appreciate good art. I love good music. I love to

see museums and experience all the exhibits and all the wondrous things that can go on display.

I love going to shows. I love being able to really sit in a moment

and experience the display of some artistic talent or beauty or something beautiful about nature.

That is just quite frankly, magical. And there is one of the world's greatest artist by the

name of Paul Robeson, who really, for me, impidimizes the connection between art and the struggle for

freedom, liberation, however you define that, and on whose behalf you are defining that.

And Paul Robeson, you really should Google this man and research him as much as you can because

he was just absolutely phenomenal in every way, shape, and form. And it's tragic that more people

don't know about him. This podcast is not actually about

Paul Ropeson, but you should know who that man is. And maybe at some point in the future, we will

discuss him and the impact that he has on who we are today and the impact that he had on the

cultivation of art, specifically art that is used for the purposes of the liberation of a people who

are facing oppression or navigating some sort of force that is used for the purposes of the liberation of a people who are facing oppression or navigating

some sort of force that is determined to prevent them from fulfilling their destiny.

And one of the things that Paul Robeson said that really has always stuck with me was a very

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