Jul 05 2008
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“ It’s good news when you reject things as they are, when you lay down the world as it is, and you take on the responsibility of shaping your own way, that’s good news. Everybody talking about spirituals, and they say, Oh Lord, black folk singing about going to heaven. No, this lesson is for you, tonight, November the eighth, 1980, in All Souls Church. Lay down the world, pick up my cross — and they don’t say it’s good times, they say good news. It’s hard times when you decide to pick up your own cross. You gone catch hell if you don’t do it the way they say do it. But when you lay down the world and shoulder up your cross, that’s what? Ain’t that good news?
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— Sweet Honey in the Rock, “Good News,” from Breaths (Flying Fish, 1988).
