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Truth Be Told Presents: She Has A Name

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Truth Be Told Presents: She Has A Name

American Public Media

True Crime, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.21.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

What are the words - when there are no words?
In the face of so much violence, death, and heartbreak, minister and writer Danté Stewart joins us to talk about what he calls “little experiments of liberation.”

GUESTS:
Danté Stewart, minister, writer and author of Shoutin’ Into The Fire: An American Epistle.
TW: @stewartdantec

LINKS:
deartbt.com
Twitter: deartruthbetold
Instagram: deartbt
TikTok: tonyatbt
Email: [email protected]

Transcript

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0:00.0

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?

0:10.0

I can't. I just can't deal right now as something I keep hearing from my people.

0:15.0

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

0:27.0

Feeling numb can feel safe.

0:31.0

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

0:37.0

What are the words when there are no words?

0:40.8

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

0:45.0

I'm driving and I turn on D.B. Wienin's singing,

0:50.0

What do you want the Lord to say?

0:52.0

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

0:57.0

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

1:02.0

No words made way to fail. almost on beat with the claps.

1:03.0

No words made way to feel.

1:06.2

And for the first time and a long time,

1:08.4

Dante cried hard.

1:10.9

What do you want the Lord to say?

1:14.0

Yeah, it felt good.

1:17.0

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

1:19.0

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

1:24.0

For this episode of truth be told I called up Dante because like you, I needed a powerful message, a salve for my soul.

1:37.6

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.

1:48.0

One of those little experiments in liberation involves Dante doing what he can to feel, to sit in the music, to spend time with the people he loves,

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