Hey, welcome to Truth Be Told. I'm Tanya Mosley. You know that feeling when there's so much happening, that you feel trapped by your feelings of despair?

In the face of violence, death, and heartbreak, we revisit minister and writer Dante Stewart's 22 conversation about what he calls little experiments and liberation.

How many times have you started talking to someone recently about all that's been going on and you can't

even get the words out. I can't. I just can't deal right now as something I keep hearing from my people.

When the world hits us over and over and over and over again, we do what we need to do to make it through.

Feeling numb can feel safe.

What's the word when you feel like you have one, but you actually don't?

What are the words when there are no words?

Dante Stewart found out the other day while driving to a friend's baby shower.

I'm driving and I turn on BB Winning's singing,

What do you want the Lord to say?

And you hear nothing but like clapping and clapping and loud clapping.

Dante's heart started to quicken, almost on beat with the claps.

No words made way to feel.

And for the first time in a long time, Dante cried hard.

Yeah, it felt good.

That's probably the only best way to describe it.

It felt like I got a little bit closer to what I've been wanting to feel.

For this episode of Truth Be Told, I called up Dante because like you, I needed a powerful

message, a sal for my soul. Dante is a minister and a writer, and right after the massacre in Texas,

he wrote a piece for the Oxford American called Little Experiments of Liberation. One of those little

experiments in liberation involves Dante doing what he can to feel, to sit in the music,

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