We need to spend our time helping to make it easier for the people who are on the frontlines of change in our country and this world. I say I am somebody, because you make me somebody. Somebody because you are part of the shared somebodiness of me.
Here's an excerpt from The Sundance Channel's Iconoclast episode featuring Ruby Dee and Alicia Keys. Ruby shares a poem while speaking to some youth at a New York school.
Ruby, when she worked at the Western Electric Company's Kearny Works during World War II, soldiering wires on an assembly line.
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