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