Soul is a witness
- My soul is a witness - Yeah, yeah
- Soul is a witness - Oh, yeah
- Before I go - Oh
- Before I go - 'Fore I go
Before I go, soul is a witness
[Speaker] Heavenly Father, we come before Thee,
knee bent and body bowed
in the humblest way that we know how.
Father, who controls and knows all things,
both the living and dying of all creatures.
Give us the strength and the wisdom to do Thy work.
In God's name we pray.
And all God's people say, "Amen."
- My soul is a witness - Amen.
- Water, wine - So high
- Water, wine - Wine
Water, wine, soul is a witness
Soul is a witness
Soul is a witness
- Soul - Soul is a witness
- Soul - Witness
- Witness - Witness
- Witness - Witness
- Witness - Soul is a witness
[Man] When Agave sobered up,
she looked down and saw the head of her son Pentheus
- right there in her hands. - She thought he was a wild animal.
That's how Dionysus got his revenge.
You a heathen, Henry.
You know what I got right here?
- What? - Some of that very wine.
"When I was a child, I spake as a child.
"I understood as a child.
"I thought as a child.
"But when I became a man,
I put away all childish things."
[Gospel continues]
- Early one mornin' - Early one mornin'
- Down the road - Early one mornin'
- Early one mornin' - Early one mornin'
Down the road
[continues]
[Speaker] Freshman class...
I believe we are the most privileged people in America,
because we have the most important job
in America:
The education of our young people.
I was traveling
Partner too
Goin' down the road
Goin' down to say
My soul is a witness
- Souls are born - Goin' home
- Soul is a witness - Goin' home
Souls are born
- Soul is a witness - Witness
- Before I go - When I go
- Before I go - Go
[gasps] Trudell!
- Who the hell is he? - Oh, he's just my husband.
I'm gonna cut your head off.
[Speaker] We must impress upon our young people
that there will be difficulties that they face.
Come on, Trudell. Come get this whuppin', boy.
- [Man] Get him down, Trudell. - Scared, ain't ya?
Huh? You with the razor and twice my size?
[Speaker] They must defeat them!
They must do what they have to do in order to do what they want to do.
[Man] Come on, now.
[Woman] Come on, baby!
[Speaker] Education is the only way out.
[Grunts]
Come on, baby. Get up! Get up, baby. Come on!
[Speaker] The way out of ignorance...
Like cuttin' people, huh, boy?
Want to cut people, Trudell, huh?
Get your hands off me!
The way out of darkness!
Into...
the glorious light.
[Ends]
Come on, now! Give it back!
- Give it back! - "To our precious Hamilton..."
This isn't funny. Come on. Dunbar, give it back.
Who do you think you are? Jesse Owens?
[Man] Have a seat.
"I am...
"the darker brother.
"They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes.
"But I laugh, and I eat well,
"and I grow strong.
"Tomorrow, I will sit at the table when company comes.
"Nobody'll dare say to me,
"'Eat in the kitchen' then.
"Besides, they'll see how beautiful I am,
"and be ashamed.
I, too, am America."
Who wrote that?
Langston Hughes, 1924.
1925.
"Hating you shall be a game played with cool hands."
"Memory will lay its hands upon your breast,
and you will understand my hatred."
Gwendolyn Bennett wrote that.
She was born in 1902.
Unofficially.
You see, in most states,
Negroes were denied birth certificates,
which means I can lie about my age the rest of my life.
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