The Making of a Girl
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Goodmorning: Rhythm and Soul
I just downloaded the new Lykke Li album- Wounded Rhymes- to jam on the way to Houston. Juxtaposing her heavy drum beating vibes, I thought about how music has always been an outlet for the oppressed. Stuck in a world where your voices, cries, and screams go unheard- songs of oppression have been a way to be heard. From old Negro spirituals to Lykke Li- music expresses emotions that can be universally felt.
“Music at its best…is the grand archeology into and transfiguration of our guttural cry, the great human effort to grasp in time our deepest passions and yearnings as prisoners of time. Profound music leads us—beyond language—to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial
heights of our silence.”
-Cornel West
"In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky-her grand old woods-her fertile fields-her beautiful rivers-her mighty lakes and star-crowned mountains. But my rapture is soon checked when I remember that all is cursed with the infernal spirit of slave-holding and wrong; When I remember that with the waters of her noblest rivers, the tears of my brethren are borne to the ocean, disregarded and forgotten; That her most fertile fields drink daily of the warm blood of my outraged sisters, I am filled with unutterable loathing."
- Frederick Douglass
abolitionists
If modern day slavery requires modern day abolitionists, I think it’s important to reflect on the lives of the original abolitionists. I will try to post some inspiring quotes from those who fought slavery in their era and succeed.
"When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the “division” of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form."
- Simone de Beauvoir
