The Shadow of Suns

My elders had seen everything there was to fear, and they knew that the power that resided in man was not the power of God. Because of them, I know what wisdom means and the gentleness of humility, and I know what only a communion with the dead can tell.

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 References, Resources, and Copyright

• The Holy Ghost referenced in the Christian faith as God, and the third member of the trinity, The Father, The Son and The Holy Ghost (Spirit).
• A Charge to Keep I Have is a hymn by Charles Wesley first published in 1762. Discipleship Ministries. (2019). History of Hymns.
• A Charge to Keep I Have. Performed by an untitled church congregation
• Zora Neale Hurston, African American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker. Author of the groundbreaking 1937 novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God.

The Colored Girl Speaks Podcast Team

• Andrea Hunter, Essayist and Producer
• Tiera Chiama Moore Narrator, Co-Producer and Vocal Artist
• Vernonia Thornton, Announcer
• Jamonica Brown and Deanna Floyd, Production Assistants