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“Do you want to know why I began studying Negro history? Why I’ve been driven to pursue the Cause, celebrate the race, and educate our people about the truth of their history?” She blinked at him, entranced. “The Emancipation Proclamation freed our bodies, the end of the Civil War liberated us from bondage, but it is up to us to free our minds.
ensuring they apply to us: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Are you pursuing happiness, Clara?”
Life was about surviving, putting one foot in front of the other to make it from day to day. She well knew it could also be about poetry and creativity and purpose. Camaraderie and friendship and love. But those had always seemed like lofty ideas for other people.
Maybe the biggest thing holding her back now was the limits of her own imagination. Maybe the problem was her.
“And you may not have grown up among the freaks, Miss Clara, but you got something more powerful than stagecraft and illusion. You got a gift, a group of folks willing to help you, and a task worth doing. More than I can say for most.”
ubuntu. It translates to ‘humanity,’ but what it really means is ‘community.’ I am because we are. Our humanity is tied together.” “Our destinies are tied together too,” Aristotle added.
the only way to discover your destiny is through your community.”
“Their destinies aren’t worth more,” she said quietly. “Being rich and educated and privileged don’t make you a better person.”
