Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Where the perfection begins

Thank you to Barack Obama for that phrase, the last line in his almost-perfect speech today. (If it weren't for that one painful Likudnik, Islamophobic reference that he doesn't even believe...)

Where the perfection begins: Helga Davis.

The fate of things/the balance of which you are not even aware/ depends on your conscious participation in the stream of apparently random events/ depends upon the sounding of your particular human vibration/ your harmonic signature/ confidently/ in the face of adversity.// You are given the choice.

-- from her performance "Imaginings," l
ast night, with Ted Cruz, hosted by the Center for African and African American Studies. As Ana pointed out: the quote is from the character "Malcolm X" from Daniel Alexander Jones' Book of Daniel, Book 7

2 comments:

Ana-Maurine Lara said...

Hey Jen - that's beautiful - the connections between slow thinking, and where perfection begins:) The lines from Helga Davis is a quote by the character of "Malcolm X" in the Book of Daniel, 7 by Daniel Alexander Jones. No doubt, a riff. xo ana

Jen said...

Nice. I didn't recognize that! Thanks.