Word: relearned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Distilled Beauty. In another scene, a bird of a girl whirls about the stage, writhes in the anguish of birth throes and then spits out the words "I hate my mother." In that moment we relearn something touching and powerful about the desperate need of the young to define themselves and to cut the anchor chains of family if they are to make voyages of their own. The show is replete with instances of insight...
...have not been allowed to be themselves. Although the vicious secrets of Amerika have not been kept from even them they are still too young and too niggered to provide either cures of intelligent concern. They only feel, numbly, and they will have to be untaught in order to relearn why they fell. Their real world is still both circumscribed and defended by the familiar: their parents, their teachers, their neighborhoods, the Pizza Hut. If they walk all the way home from school on a warm day, they have traversed their universe. They have no idea what an unusual future...
...says Marshall, black Christians must relearn the wholehearted involvement with religion that typifies the churches' "Aunt Janes,"* and that they lost when some denominations became "too white" in style. Only in a revitalized religion, says Marshall, can blacks find the spiritual energy to win and keep power. Marshall's parting benediction at Sunday services, appropriately, is "Peace and power." His Tuesday-night sermons during Lent dwelt on the power of the Holy Spirit to transform lives. "We need the church to be a spiritual organism," shouted Marshall in one sermon, "where the Spirit of God goes out into...