Welcome to the liturgist podcast.

You are now listening to Black History is American History.

The oldest emphasis upon Black men and white does emphasize something which is here but it

emphasizes or perhaps exaggerates it and therefore makes us put people together in groups

which they ought not to be in.

I have more in common with a black scholar that I have with a white man who is against

scholarship and you have more in common with a white author than you have with someone who

is against or literature.

So why must we always concentrate on color or in religion or this?

And what are the ways of connecting men?

I will tell you this.

When I left this country in 1948.

I left this country one reason only, one reason I didn't hear where I went.

I might have gone to Hong Kong, I might have gone to Timbuktu, I ended up in Paris, on

the streets of Paris.

With $40 and I pocket on the theory that nothing worse could happen to me there and it

already happened to me here.

You talk about making it as a right about yourself.

You had to be able then to turn up all the intent of a bit you live because once you turn

your back on this society you may die.

You may die.

And it's very hard to say that typewriter and concentrate on that if you're afraid of

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