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Stephanie Rooker, True Human Design, spiritchild - affirmation (Assata Shakur)

from Silence Broken disc 2 (the rhythm of freedom) by freetarek

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Released on Assata's B'earthday, this completes Disc 2 of Silence Broken. Assata's poem affirmation was redesigned to music and melody.

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Affirmation

Affirmation

I believe in living. I believe in the spectrum
of Beta days and Gamma people.
I believe in sunshine
in windmills and waterfalls,
tricycles and rocking chairs.
And I believe that seeds grow into sprouts,
And sprouts grow into trees.
I believe in the magic of the hands.
And in the wisdom of the eyes.
I believe in rain and tears.
And in the blood of infinity.

I believe in life.
And I have seen the death parade
march through the torso of the earth,
sculpting mud bodies in its path.
I have seen the destruction of the daylight,
and seen the bloodthirsty maggots
prayed to and saluted.

I have seen the kind become the blind
and the blind become the bind
in one easy lesson.
I have walked on cut glass.
I have eaten crow and blunder bread
and breathed the stench of indifference.

I have been locked by the lawless.
Handcuffed by the haters.
Gagged by the greedy.
And, if I know anything at all,
it’s that a wall is just a wall
and nothing more at all.
It can be broken down.

I believe in living.
I believe in birth.
I believe in the sweat of love
and in the fire of truth.

And I believe that a lost ship,
steered by tired, seasick sailors,
can still be guided home
to port.


-Assata Shakur

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from Silence Broken disc 2 (the rhythm of freedom), track released July 16, 2010
performance by Stephanie Rooker, bass by True Human Design of Mental Notes, produced arranged mixed and conceived by spiritchild of Mental Notes and Movement In Motion

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