joyce

雲 ---- 芃芃

我仰望星空

沒有星

星星跌落在迷路的腳步裡

在叢林間 尋找你的眼睛

你的眼睛近了

黑夜裡 反射在深綠色的草葉上

似蜻蜓

 

心 是永遠的平靜

似夜晚的湖水

即使是漣漪 也看不到痕跡

我的心 只有你懂

天邊 無限遠 似在眼前

 

一點也不慌張 我不急於實現

實現與未竟只是一個邊緣

一個無限遠

我細心聽雨

雨在另一個世界的地面

我的紅色雨鞋踏 在濕滑的路面

刻出一個個記憶的軌跡

 

人, 可以活在記憶裡的

如果未來 也許 只是一些短暫的須臾

那麼,讓我

留在記憶裡

那些個清澈琉璃的舊曲

你曾告訴我喜歡任意

 

我也任意的

任意在這等著

任意同你在同一個時空裡

在同一個夜晚與白日的交替

我在這 而你在那兒

呼吸 同一種空氣

是的 我很任意…隨意…

 

my operated toe at construction site...I drew a eye on it...

<人生的舞臺>

今晚, 身體同精神, 已經非常非常的累了….

 

但我很害怕, 怕這一睡下去, 就再也醒不了.

 

經年, 已經習慣了自己同自己對話.

這一次, 也需要自己與自己解決問題.

 

問題在於, 這到底是什麼???

腳上的, 心上的.

 

腳上的, 本周內就有結果, 是好是壞, 由它去了. 早已寫好了長長的LIST…

心上的, 那份煎熬, 卻是折磨得人死去活來.

 

今晚想起兩個字:

尊嚴.

 

人是要尊嚴的活著的. 這世界上沒有乞求或是施捨, 有的, 只是平等靈魂.

 

知我者, 會珍惜; 不知者, 不要也罷.

 

人是不可以永遠單程車票, 不聞不問…人有感覺, 有情感.

 

決定放下, 無論身體的結果是好是壞, 感情, 應當平等.

 

明天爵士節的舞臺已經豎起, 我人生的舞臺, 要翩翩起舞…

短短數句, 記載此刻心情, 明天將是如何, 也罷, 也罷……

 

 

the one of my best nights

I have spent almost couple hours tried to find his music < first step >, but I couldn't find online.... 

 

Well, tonight, was the one of my best night, ever.  

 

Went to city hall & enjoyed the concert by Shunzo Ohno+Ted Lo + Eugene Pao + Shinichi + Taro... 

 

Amazing! 

 

I really love <first step>, even Ted teased me " oh, that is a very difficult music, you sure you understand?"...yes, I do...for Jazz music, everyone has their own explanation, and it flows by our own moods....I felt heavy, when I listened to it...but, heavy, means quality, means weight....means sth loads into your heart, and makes some noise..

 

I love < bubbles >..been Central Park many many times....when I listened to this...I closed my eyes...I could imagine all the bubbles, the sky with clouds...the reflections...I could imagine the young sentimental musician rambled on those paths full with bushes, and finally turned his bad day to be a such wonderful day with great melodies..

 

I love < see breezes > < what's going on>.... 

 

I tried to find all of them on-line then share with you guys....but, < bubbles > is too busy not fresh like I just heard on the stage...and I even could not find the live video of the amazing drummer Taro!!! 

 

Here is his website: http://taro-koyama.com/index.html 

 

I was at the first row....I forgot who am I, where I was....I just felt that I was in the heaven for 2 and half hours....I enjoyed Eugene's solo...I felt the waves, the storms...I touched the heaviness...i saw Ted's smile...happy face...three great Japanese musicians...everything was perfect....haven't really met such a great show for years...no clothes changing...lighting was same....just sometimes red sometimes blue...no bull shit... but  Shunzo is such a cool guy with sense of humor.... 

 

They turned my normal Sunday, to eternity!!!!  

 

Last, when I left there, I saw Skip Moy still busy working with PA system < it calls PA system too Skip?>...so sexy...hard working man.... 

 

Thank you for music! 

 

Thank you for all, to bring us here. Because of Music!!!  

 

I do remember, in the French movie < the eighth day>, god first created the MUSIC... 

 

because he wants us to love each other, without boundaries... 

 

thank you for the music...

The Music I have listened since July, 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub747pprmJ8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g8wWOrvWgU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrIiLvg58SY&feature=share

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpA0l2WB86E&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOld6VsOVZc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7ry4cx6HfY&feature=fvwrel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRSH-egVyzk&feature=share

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQNrYdU5WcA&feature=relmfu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBp8YxunvAo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRIbf6JqkNc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnfnSsWaHmI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAtUCeFJOvg&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epSMyGjVsmE&feature=relmfu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiXpJ0scofg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClTjOSMcVtA&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwDY8AiB8BM&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQQ6SfPZggw&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7QL46cK7B8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUpbO-mpi74

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWnG5Ff0EWU&sns=fb

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YDHaZq7f_4&sns=fb

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiRqIqKw2Go&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExnUbFNcTQo&sns=fb

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_bqARauWZw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBhZAQlOtwg&sns=fb

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57tK6aQS_H0&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L9-AvjsB6g&feature=fvst

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgOeGpwTTag&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9AeMN8Vi_U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkch479CyLU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xda02V8KLzU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXq5VvYAI1Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIt8VTA-9Sc&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQoisuB5s7c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9s25OUdspE&feature=fvwrel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IFy79x_4Hs&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGXVpFSE7nQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8tuTSi6Sck

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAJ2AoEwDvY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJdUV1ttxLE&sns=em

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXxbkaXw3ac

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xubavlo3CFk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXXXdf-a6LI&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avUXnAMpFoo&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPiZoND209U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxUTe1lWY6s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROLGdmgxJ_I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2skW43HNpE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqTZ7Bzp4N0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=-4sU4uxdg7s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9cgtWKI4TU&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fz8jcm-bV8&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jyVZNrWkow&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bNE-5TVAmg&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieq3rh67HW0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8zBSZOi2fI&feature=related

http://soundcloud.com/mark-cottrell/joyce-is-not-here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hX59v-gt-M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDXmL0eXnPs&sns=fb

http://www.mefeedia.com/watch/23810262

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PosYhfaWdKA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmubMVyuK4U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff7rybH51FU&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrPxqCY4LHU&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbL9vr4Q2LU&sns=fb

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5EUcYw96us&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLHTM0xQzmE&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfduuHqDrfE&feature=related

http://reynoldsstill.blogspot.com/2011/04/good-times.html

http://reynoldsstill.blogspot.com/2011/01/workin-that-mojo.html?spref=fb

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VBex8zbDRs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOfC9LfR3PI&sns=fb

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oni0tO_HN30&sns=fb

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hNZEjqXRFw&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLtFsiOFn-4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JryQXilMj4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vi8h9_KgFpc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48cTUnUtzx4

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IATz8ZVTALo&sns=fb

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtnUzvtZIq4&feature=youtube_gdata_player

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44YitKiVZ8E&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIiUqfxFttM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSNVCPkNl4U

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8l37utZxMQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo4OnQpwjkc&sns=fb

http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=Fc4qWs5jMlk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJm2qV34sU4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVAWKfJ4Go&feature=fvwrel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-DNzwV-M1M&feature=share

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkB7MUT_0Dw

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuYKOx834Pw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3LCyTtWhDA

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUEhjIuz5n4

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogjV1nT5WW0

Writing things I don't know if I want to write... by Joyce Peng

< I wrote below the Chinese article earlier this morning, then my friend KW just now translated into English ... Writing connects people together ... Here's is his translation >

It's actually very late at 3:35am and any regular person should be resting.

I am yet to do so.

Because there is a hollowness beneath the chest that is refraining me from sleep. Even though I'm lying down.

Days are at its disorderly fashion. It could've been better If I saw Big Brother in Shanghai on 7th of August. There was a typhoon attack and it hit me like the ripples of a lake.

What's with this planet?

The planet is ill.

The planet became absurd and superficial. The only remaining ultimate aim is to use each other as instruments. Those tasteless and empty things they speak of had my expressions pale and fragile.

I am only nostalgic of the European travel days where unfamiliar tourists speak of the skies and the earth from philosophy, literature, music, theatre. Quality time became part of day without restraint. There were words of every root language where the wide skies met the seas. And then, we break apart with mutual respect, disappearing amongst the memories of itinerant rivers and lakes.

"Disappearing amongst the memories of itinerant rivers and lakes", are a combination of the world's most beautiful words used together. I am unable to imply the meaning of "rivers and lakes" to my non-Chinese speaking friends.

The unrestrained nature dashing with refined elegance. The unruly. The vast boundlessness. The aloof loneliness. Without alternatives or choice.

In this place, there are no emotions that can speak of the "disappearing memories of itinerant rivers and lakes". Nobody can simply erase one from its memories. Nobody is going anywhere. They mingle about and return with a bleak smile. And actually, "the body does not know how to treat its guest in a dream"….just part of the days' hedonistic greed.

In the past three months, I have been woken by fright when the morning is still at its youth. I stare at my phone in search of words and phrases from the shores. I became unsure and unable to find the difference between dreams and consciousness. My biological clock has been thoroughly thrown into confusion. Facial expressions becoming horrid and hateful in gaunt without an appetite and emotionally fluctuated.

But the world has no mercy on my fluctuation. With responsibilities pushing weight on my shoulders, there is no room to be slack other than the brief moments in the waters. I was allowed to spread my arms in emancipation and wander the ripples. I was able to reach out without constraint under a condition where you can no longer feel the body's weight, the pressure's weights and the weights of burden. You can only feel the float like the clouds on the surface of the waters. In the fine skies and clear waters and thin clouds with pure winds.

The weather has cooled down, winds bring the cold and air-conditioners switched off. Streets covered with people in long sleeves. I waved goodbye to the days near the ocean. How beautiful it was. I can stop next to the ocean by myself for a whole day to read, write, drink, dream. It's lonely without solitude. With the choice of living alone, there are no regrets.

This year will be a little station where I change trains to different tracks of my life's journey. I wave goodbye to my second marriage that was beautiful but with confusion. Sometimes, being stopped by the tracks is not a bad thing. To walk in an no access zone with difficulties should be  unforgiven.

We wave calm goodbyes without disappearing memories of itinerant rivers and lakes. Sharing the same pillows promises friendship for this lifetime. No matter whether the time were years or evenings…I emphasize affections but being confronted by reality, I can merely emphasize on meaning and not affection.

Therefore I say, this year was beautiful. You were beautiful for several years but who knew of such endings. The beauty in life is uncertainty and it is because you cannot simply recreate an identical experience. At the year's late evenings, there were times lingering between pillows, but things are not humane. Things move and planets orbit. In the deserted lengths, we've lost each other who are still hiding in the deserted lengths. But we've found ourselves.

I think I should be home. Home always offered a feeling where it is always blurred. This was probably because of fate encounters since childhood, living under a roof living family relations far too simple, family conditions far too turbulent and moving houses far too many times. Not only were they little streets turning into communities, eventually cities becoming nation states. 

That's why, I have always deemed that home is where the heart is. It's not where the house is or the privileges of living environment.

Where's the heart?
At this time, the heart is just here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVeFu_lf_-0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2m8vMtChcE

寫著不知道想寫的什麼…

其實已經很夜了, 3:35分,正常的人也要休息了.

我還不想.

心裡空空的.

不想睡, 睡也睡不著. 

 

日子過得雜亂, 卻並不無章. 若8月7日去了上海, 見到了大哥, 也許會好些. 那天打風, 就打亂了我一湖漣漪…

 

世界怎麼了?

世界病了.

世界變得那麼荒謬與膚淺, 人與人之間追求得不過是利用, 那些乏味的空洞話題, 把我也變得蒼白脆弱.

 

我,懷念我在歐洲遊歷的日子, 和陌生的同旅人談天說地, 哲學, 文學, 音樂, 戲劇…相聚一晌, 無拘無束, 用夾雜著法文,德文,義大利文,中文的英文,海闊天空一番, 然後分手,互道珍重, 相忘於江湖…

 

“相忘於江湖…”,是世界上最美麗的一句話. 我常常不知道,如何去對我的不識中文的外國朋友們解釋, “江湖”這個詞的涵義.

 

那是一份瀟灑, 一份不羈, 一份蒼茫, 一份孤獨, 一份無奈…

 

在這裡, 不會有“相忘於江湖…”那份情懷….大家誰也忘不了, 誰也走不了哪去…周旋一番後, 冰凍的微笑後, 竟然是”夢裡不知身是客”-----一晌貪歡!

 

在過去的3個月, 我每天都是在淩明驚醒, 看著電話, 搜索著來自彼岸的隻言片語…以至於我常常分不清, 什麼是夢, 什麼是醒…我的生物時鐘徹底被打亂. 容顏變得恐怖憔悴可憎…沒有胃口, 情緒起伏.

 

但世界容不得我的起伏, 重任於肩, 絲毫不可懈怠…便只有在水中的片刻, 使我自由馳騁, 蕩漾徜徉…那感覺如此自在, 舒展, 你感覺不到自己的重量, 壓力的重量, 擔子的重量, 你, 只感覺到漂浮, 如雲一般, 漂浮於水面…海晴天朗, 雲淡風清…

 

但天涼了, 風夾著寒意, 冷氣已經不用了, 街上的人們已經穿起了長袖衣….我, 就要告別大海的日子了….大海的日子, 何其美麗….我可以寂寞的停留在海旁, 一整天, 看書, 寫作, 喝酒, 做夢…是的, 寂寞, 並不孤獨…選擇寂寞的活著, 沒有遺憾.

 

今年, 將是我又一個人生獨旅的小小驛站. 我, 將告別我美麗而淒迷的第二次婚姻. 有時, 不能走下去, 不是壞事. 走不下去, 而偏偏要勉強走下去, 才不能寬恕.

 

我們, 是, 平靜的揮手, <老生常談般:不帶走一片雲彩,只有無數美麗記憶…>, 我們不會相忘於江湖. 同枕, 便是終生的朋友. 無論那同枕, 是一年, 兩年, 還是, 一夜, 兩夜….我重情, 可以不要現實; 重義, 可以不要情.

 

所以我說, 這一年是美麗的, 美麗的是你七,八年前, 怎麼也想不到, 會是如此結局, 人生美麗的就是”未知”…就是你永遠難以預見下一刻的發生…今夕此年, 曾枕上纏綿, 但物是人非, 物轉星移, 在荒袤中, 我們,失去了彼此, 亦在荒袤中;我們,找到了自己…..

 

我想,我應該是回家了….家, 給我的感覺, 一向是模糊的…這可能是緣自兒時, 太過簡單的家庭關係, 太過動盪的家庭環境, 太多次的搬家, 不僅是, 小街, 社區, 甚至是變換城市, 變換國家….

 

所以, 我一向認為, 心在哪, 家,就在哪. 而不是那所房子, 或優越的生活環境.

 

心,在哪?

心, 此刻, 就在這兒…..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2m8vMtChcE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVeFu_lf_-0

 

有一天, 有一個午後, 有一年

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gsekb1qwZs0&feature=related

我在早秋的昏黃

開始在清早醒來的空曠中

尋找你

那是無望的

因為, 你既不在, 也不曾在,

我溫濕枕畔 我夾雜著一些薰衣草味道的房間

你,從,不,在…

 

我會立即的問你---在哪?

你會立即的答我---在這!

 

但那是飛行15小時的距離, 那是黑暗與天明的對比!

 

現代通訊, 讓如此荒謬的一段距離,

因為互聯網, 而似是而非的安慰我

“我在這….”

 

於是, 我渾渾愕愕如此虛度華年

我在淩明醒, 醒了睡, 睡了醒的太陽升起的時日,

陷自己在那將混沌記憶裡

 

我不敢寫, 因為永遠未知那些結局, 即使我不強調結局…

 

呼吸哽噎, 澀於心頭

於眾人面前堅強的表面

卻在每一個黎明

流淚到漫山遍野…

 

我

沒有結局

死時

是否有那麼一束清新的野菊花?

在我的墓前

不羈的開放

驕傲的枯萎???

?

 

my new movie blog

http://joyceisnothere.typepad.com/all_just_one_film_but_dif/

i have a dream...

Yes, it’s a rainy night.

I am not use to bringing an umbrella with me in my whole life and I was walking very fast on the street, under the rain….it made me recall my times visiting Paris…Paris, is always beautiful in the rain…

 

I was holding a half bottle of wine from Toscana…it is not as expensive

as Moris Farms Avvoltore…Dan Ryan sells a decent Italian wine but

a bottle for me is way too much…I feel like I am a boozer but just in a

good controled ( boozer! Tks Edward, for teaching me this word, and

more…) 

<the help> is a good movie!

The power of a good movie, is when you want to learn more about why

they made the movie, and all the stories behind it. 

I spent my half an hour there, while I waited for my juicy blue rare steak, browsing all the history of the “ African American Civil Rights Movement” .

Dan Ryan is always my favorite restaurant, the wooden tables are all tarnished…many single travelers, writers are there and we never bother each other…for years, after I watched hundreds of movies at Pacific Place, I would escaped to here, and write my film-review… 

A week ago, I watched <mid night in Paris> by woody allen….which most of my friends all believe that I would love soooo much…but, I don’t. 

Compared with <mid night in Paris>, < the help> touches me much more. It is a true story of racism and the revolutionary movement. 

Which is something Abraham Lincoln announced an end to in 1863, but still many years later the situation is still around…that is what I learned in that half hour: 

1896, <separate but equality>  by Plessy U. Ferguson;

1963, denied.

1967, “poor people’s campaign”

Malcolm X, the quote and the film!

Yes, Martin Luther King and “ I have a dream”… 

My birthday is really close to his day ( the 3^rd Monday in January every year) and that is the only holiday Americans use a persons name to designate, besides Lincoln & Washington, and even Martin Luther King was not a president.

I was reading all those historical stories while I was taking my dinner at Dan Ryan…a friendly Black guy stared at me for a while but I am sure that he didn’t know what was on my mind at that moment…

---Apartheid 

--- The Emancipation Proclamation

--- I Have a Dream

I felt like I was in another country, I have travelled half of this planet, and I always love to sit in a small restaurant, and read, write and feel other’s lives… 

A sincere movie makes us learn, think, and break all the old rules and frames….<the help> is definitely it!

Even MJ has a song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxREIwfZLoY&feature=related

finally, let’s finish with Martin Luther King’s “ I have a dream”

....

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today!

I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today!

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; "and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."²

This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with.

With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.

And this will be the day -- this will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning:

My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.

Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride,

From every mountainside, let freedom ring!

And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.

And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.

Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.

Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.

Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.

But not only that:

Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.

Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.

Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.

From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:

                Free at last! Free at last!

                Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!