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Martin Luther King, Jr., more than any other public figure helped to solidify my ideas and inspired me to act upon them.
And a Voice to Sing With (1989)
I am recording them for myself, to take a hard look back before facing forward in these most bizarre of times.
And a Voice to Sing With (1989)
I learned to love the Japanese bow, and I use it to this day in concert to thank people for having come to hear me.
And a Voice to Sing With (1989)
My art, work, family and friends, my son Gabe, and a curious relationship with God remain the sustaining forces in my life.
And a Voice to Sing With (1989)
All of us alive are survivors, but how many of us transcend survival? (p. 322)
And a Voice to Sing With (1989)
Seeing that nothing could come of our presence in Vietnam except disaster, I had a quiet revelation and decided to refuse to pay my military taxes.
And a Voice to Sing With (1989)
It seemed a miracle that I would meet, and have the blessing to know and work with, one of the two saints of the phenomenon which had won my heart when I was barely sixteen years old: the concept of radical nonviolence, introduced to the world as a revolutionary political tool by Mahatma Gandhi in India, and reintroduced now by Martin Luther King, Jr., in the United States of America.
And a Voice to Sing With (1989)