We Speak Your Names
A Celebration
Failed to add items
Add to Cart failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from wish list failed.
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
We Speak Your Names
Buy Now for $13.84
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
-
Narrated by:
-
Pearl Cleage
-
Written by:
-
Pearl Cleage
-
Zaron W. Burnett
About this listen
In the tradition of Maya Angelou's Phenomenal Woman, best-selling author Pearl Cleage brings us an inspiring poem for all women, destined to become a classic.
Cleage refers to We Speak Your Names as a "celebration" which is part of an oral tradition that encompasses the entire history of the African-American experience. This tradition, she says, grew out of an understanding that "some things must be spoken out loud to get where the magic is". What results is a praise poem which acknowledges the legacy of those who have gone before, and a realization, "with a knowing deeper than the flow of human blood in human veins, that we are part of something better, truer, deeper".
©2006 Pearl Cleage (P)2006 Blackstone AudiobooksWhat the critics say
- Audie Award Finalist, Inspirational/Spiritual, 2007
"The most powerful thing we ever experienced. We were in tears from the deeply rooted, primal emotion connecting one generation with the next." (Oprah Winfrey, on the live reading of this poem at her Legends Ball)
"[Cleage] sends the message that unless you have self-knowledge others can make you become what they desire you to be. She also reminds us that a person without a past is a person without an identity." (Library Journal)