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Soul is Screamin\/ Screechin TINTINNABULATION! That\u2019s Soul!! Ring bells oh You can\u2019t touch it or feel it but you touch it and feel it it moves ya when you see it, and you feel it when it moves ya cause you can\u2019t see it if it moves ya It\u2019s the holy ghost It\u2019s the seven seas It\u2019s chicken pie and a bloody nose It\u2019s the rhythmic beat of two flat feet thumpin and bumpin out soul will beat ya in a minute if you\u2019re highfaluttin round in it Listen: A beautiful south sea island, the whistle of the waves, grass skirts, the whistle of, a liner docks, smiling faces You\u2019re here!<\/p>\n

Mr. & Mrs. Westerveal Duddly Hammington, you\u2019re here staying at the HILTON, registered and fed, you take a \u201cdip\u201d at the hotel pool A dance? A drink from a ceramic coconut A piece of mint thrown on the side A flower in Miz Duddlys\u2019 hair? That\u2019s Soul? (You\u2019re told). But in the distance: drums beatin, natives retreatin, night grows darker, fires starta glowin, somethin magic gets ta goin heat gettin hotta, somethin swellin deep inside ya, hips movin and groovin, this ain\u2019t art It\u2019s Real\/Movin!<\/p>\n

Soul is the titular head of your emotional household something in man believed to be the source of his spiritual being Yeah, man! Soul is the holy rollers and all the unholy rollers groovin in their own kinda way Soul is the swish and swash of a fat bahind with somethin good on her mind Please understand it! You can\u2019t go round spillin out pat definitions on Soul Cause Soul is goin down in the gutter down and comin up\/ STRONG a rose with a gutter smell and ya love that smell wont lose that smell cause it\u2019s where ya been and ya might go back Heard a man say, \u201cI laughed all the breath out my body.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now that\u2019s Soul Soul is burnin for learnin and learnin ta burn and singin for singin, no more Soul is an honest livin legal or illegal when you\u2019re honest with yourself about life Soul is a heart cut out of watermelon rind screamin, \u201cI wanta VOTE!\u201d while the vein of a country the A-okay order, chokes off it\u2019s breath See how deep Soul can go.<\/p>\n

Anyhow, for those who don\u2019t understand Soul, there is this word, you never will.<\/p>\n

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Black Classic Press specializes in publishing popular and academic works by and about people of African descent and is one of the oldest independently owned Black publishers in operation in the United States. www.blackclassicbooks.com 1kitap1.com\/en Grateful acknowledgment is made to: Negro Digest for permission to reprint \u201cLife With Red Top\u201d by Ronald L. Fair, copyright \u00a9 1965 by Negro Digest; \u201cThe Fellah, The Chosen Ones, The Guardian\u201d by David Llorens, copyright \u00a9 1966 by Negro Digest; \u201cThe Baroness and the Black Musician\u201d by Larry Neal, copyright \u00a9 1966 by Negro Digest; \u201cThe New Breed\u201d by Peter Labrie, copyright \u00a9 1966 by Negro Digest; \u201cNot Your Singing, Dancing Spade\u201d by Julia Fields, copyright \u00a9 1967 by Negro Digest; \u201cThat She Would Dance No More\u201d by Jean Wheeler Smith, copyright \u00a9 1967 by Negro Digest.<\/p>\n

Boss for permission to reprint \u201cA Black Stick with a Ball of Cotton for a Head and a Running Machine for a Mouth\u201d by Calvin C. Hernton, copyright 1967 by Reginald Gay. Transatlantic Review for permission to reprint \u201cSummary\u201d by Sonia Sanchez, copyright 1966 by Joseph McCrindle. Kulchur Press, Inc. for permission to reprint \u201ctomorrow the heroes\u201d by A. B. Spellman, copyright 1966 by Kulchur Press, Inc. Dasein-Jupiter Hammon, Publishers, for permission to reprint \u201cTo the \u2018JFK\u2019 Quintet\u201d by Al Fraser, which appeared originally in Dasein, copyright 1963 by Dasein Literary Society; \u201cMan With a Furnace in His Hand\u201d by Lance Jeffers, which appeared originally in Burning Spear, copyright 1963 by Dasein Literary Society; \u201cElegy for a Lady\u201d by Walt Delegall, which appeared originally in Dasein, copyright 1962 by Dasein Literary Society.<\/p>\n

Burning Spear for permission to reprint \u201cPsalm for Sonny Rollins\u201d by Walt Delegall. American Society of African Culture for permission to reprint \u201cReclaiming the Lost African Heritage\u201d by John Henrik Clarke, which appeared originally in The American Negro Writer and his Roots, copyright by the American Society of African Culture. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee for permission to reprint \u201cToward Black Liberation\u201d by Stokely Carmichael, reprinted from The Massachusetts Review, Autumn, 1966, and \u201cAin\u2019t That a Groove\u201d by Charlie Cobb, which first appeared in Student Voice.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is a short excerpt from the opening of “” by Unknown, quoted for review and introduction purposes. All rights belong to the copyright holders.<\/em><\/p>\n

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