Platform : Racial Healing: ‘People Have to Talk, People Have to Listen’

My fellow writers and I should continually bear in mind (the importance) of teaching racial harmony in our writings, because love can be taught. Every minister, rabbi, priest and teacher should make this theme their focal point every day. Also, theater groups could feature inter-racial and inter-religious themes and emphasize love because we show too much anger and not enough of the healing process.

I admire all those people from different races who spoke positively about one another during the riots. Those who impressed me the most were the ones who freed themselves from all hate and realized all of our likenesses and differences. Everyone must have a raw battle with their little prejudices.

You can’t take a picture of the human spirit. If there was some way . . . to visualize the human spirit, there would be no differences in color, or in bone structure or in eye shape and . . . there would be the same possibilities of goodness, honesty, song, joy and love in each and every spirit. Everyone of us must look beyond the outside and into the spirit.