Feet that need to rest and to dance; backs that need support; shoulders that need arms, strong arms I’m telling you. And oh my people, out yonder, hear me, they do not love your neck unnoosed and straight. So love your neck; put a hand on it, grace it, stroke it, and hold it up.
There are few more powerful scenes in literature, than that of ‘Baby Suggs’, the woman preacher in Toni Morrison’s ‘Beloved’, sermon preached in a place