Harper’s Blog
“I hear in the musical forms the forms of nonviolent resistance itself: holding steady, taking small steps forward, being beaten back, and getting up again. The repeated notes, beats, and waves of harmonies sustaining and reemerging, shifting in the slightest increments, are the sounds of labor, patience, the ache of endurance, and the unrelieved expectation of changes that hardly ever come.”
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