A Prayer For Our Bodies

How to Survive the End of the World

Society & Culture

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

won't you celebrate with me - by Lucille Clifton

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won't you celebrate with me

what i have shaped into

a kind of life? i had no model.

born in babylon

both nonwhite and woman

what did i see to be except myself?

i made it up

here on this bridge between

starshine and clay,

my one hand holding tight

my other hand; come celebrate

with me that everyday

something has tried to kill me

and has failed.

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Source: Book of Light (Copper Canyon Press, 1993)

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0:00.0	My body is a symbol.
0:13.8	Beloved survivors, this is autumn.
0:19.2	By now you all have heard the news that Roe is overturned.
0:25.0	That in many states across the US, trigger laws have already gone into effect outlawing
0:29.9	abortion that this sacred right to body sovereignty has been revoked by the state and not by our
0:37.7	doing.
0:40.5	In this moment, we remember that our losses always stand in relation to our wins.
0:48.6	We have lost, but we are not lost.
0:52.4	We are in our purpose, and our purpose is freedom.
0:58.5	We wanted to share a prayer for this time, and a prayer is also a song, and this is a
1:04.6	time for singing.
1:07.8	Singing helps us to breathe.
1:10.2	Singing helps us to move.
1:14.0	One of the musical projects I've been working on has been singing black feminist texts, so I'm
1:19.4	going to sing a part of Lucille Clifton's poem, Won't You Celebrate With Me.
1:25.2	I'll sing the words three times, so that if you want to sing along, as you catch the
1:31.8	melody, you can join me.
1:37.3	Come celebrate with me, come celebrate with me, every day, every day, every day, every
1:52.1	day, every day, every day, something has tried to kill me and has failed.
2:06.3	Come celebrate with me, come celebrate with me, every day, every day, every day, every
2:20.3	day, every day, every day, something has tried to kill me and has failed.
2:33.2	Come celebrate with me, come celebrate with me, every day, every day, every day, every
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