We Speak Your Names: A Celebration Audiobook, by Pearl Cleage Play Audiobook Sample

We Speak Your Names: A Celebration Audiobook

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Read By: Pearl Cleage Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 0.50 hours at 1.5x Speed 0.38 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: January 2006 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781481536370

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

6

Longest Chapter Length:

08:58 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

06:35 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

07:38 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

7

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Publisher Description

“Sisterhood in the service of truth is an undeniable force in these remarkable times. My Sisters, here, there, and everywhere, this poem is for you.”

In the tradition of Maya Angelou’s Phenomenal Woman, bestselling author Pearl Cleage brings us an inspiring poem for all women, destined to become a classic.

Cleage refers to We Speak Your Names as a “celebration” which is part of an oral tradition that encompasses the entire history of the African American experience. This tradition, she says, grew out of an understanding that “some things must be spoken out loud to get where the magic is.” What results is a praise poem which acknowledges the legacy of those who have gone before, and a realization, “with a knowing deeper than the flow of human blood in human veins, that we are part of something better, truer, deeper.” 

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"After I watched Oprah's Celebration of Black Women, I HAD TO GET THIS BOOK!! The event, the youngin's, the gems of our time... PRICELESS!! Oprah truly outdid herself with that celebration. Soooo much talent in the same room, under the same tent. I can only imagine the wisdom that was shared!! "

— Dee (5 out of 5 stars)

Quotes

  • “The most powerful thing we ever experienced. We were in tears from the deeply rooted, primal emotion connecting one generation with the next.”

    — Oprah Winfrey, on the live reading of this poem at her Legends Ball
  • “Qualities of bravery, magic, and sensuality are envoked…this was a celebration of sisterhood, of accomplishment, and of dreams that did not dry like a raisin in the sun…an excellent addition to a multicultural collection.”

    — Kliatt

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  • Overall Performance: 5 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 5

    " This was water for my spirit. I highly recommend it. "

    — Glenis, 8/14/2013
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    " SOMEBODY has gotta pay tribute to Black women. it's just a shame they seem to always hafta do it themselves. "

    — RK, 5/3/2013
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    " beautiful & inspirational "

    — Winsome, 11/12/2012
  • Overall Performance: 5 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 5

    " After I watched Oprah's Celebration of Black Women, I HAD TO GET THIS BOOK!! The event, the youngin's, the gems of our time... PRICELESS!! Oprah truly outdid herself with that celebration. Soooo much talent in the same room, under the same tent. I can only imagine the wisdom that was shared!! "

    — Dee, 9/15/2011
  • Overall Performance: 5 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 55 out of 5

    " I love this book! We speak your name is a must read for women, from all walks of life. "

    — Vanessa, 8/5/2011
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    " I love this book! We speak your name is a must read for women, from all walks of life. "

    — Vanessa, 12/22/2009

About Pearl Cleage

Pearl Cleage is an award-winning playwright whose play Flyin’ West was the most-produced new play in the country in 1994 and a bestselling author whose novels include What Looks like Crazy on an Ordinary DayI Wish I Had a Red DressSome Things I Never Thought I’d Do, and Baby Brother’s Blues, among others. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia.