Life Lit by Some Large Vision
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Life Lit by Some Large Vision

Selected Speeches and Writings

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eBook - ePub

Life Lit by Some Large Vision

Selected Speeches and Writings

About this book

Star actor of stage, film, and television, civil rights activist, screenwriter, and director, Ossie Davis was among the most beloved and respected men in Hollywood and American society as a whole, whose brilliant oratory style was among his most inspiring and celebrated gifts —and all of his written essays, tributes, letters, and more have been collected for this book. This book represents the best of the scores of speeches and talks, written and delivered by the great Ossie Davis. While the sound of his voice will be missed in the reading, his unique gift for expressing himself, articulating his thoughts and his visions are present on every page of this moving collection.Davis had intended to assemble these disparate pieces long before his passing in the spring of 2005. His wife and his family have followed-up and delivered to us the text of his speeches, essays, tributes and eulogies, letters, and the brilliant monologue that was "The Benediction" from his groundbreaking play, first produced in 1961, "Purlie Victorious."In the end, this is a book that will resonate from Hollywood to the heartlands across the country as a document of one man's wisdom and generosity, and a legacy that enriches all of us.

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Information

Publisher
Atria Books
Year
2006
Print ISBN
9780743289894
eBook ISBN
9781416525493
Topic
Storia
Subtopic
Biografie in ambito storico

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Also by Ossie Davis
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Epigraph
  7. Contents
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Foreword by Ruby Dee
  10. Speeches
  11. Address at the Palm Garden (1952)
  12. The English Language Is My Enemy (1966)
  13. On the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1968)
  14. It’s Not the Man, It’s the Plan (1971)
  15. Be Not Too Tame, Neither (1983)
  16. Talking Drums and Haitian Dumplings (1995)
  17. The World of Hunger and Me (2002)
  18. What I Found on This Campus (2003)
  19. Convocation Speech (2004)
  20. A Discussion with Young Activists and Artists (2003)
  21. Essays
  22. Purlie Told Me (1962)
  23. The Significance of Lorraine Hansberry (1965)
  24. The Wonderful World of Law and Order (1966)
  25. Re: A New Constitution (C. 1968)
  26. On Economics (1968)
  27. A 35-Millimeter Talking Drum (1970)
  28. The Nature of the Revolution (1971)
  29. Challenge for the Year 2000 (1989)
  30. Tributes and Eulogies
  31. Malcolm X (1965)
  32. Godfrey Cambridge (1976)
  33. Louis Armstrong (1980)
  34. Stepin Fetchit (1981)
  35. The Schomburg Center (1990S)
  36. Betty Shabazz (1997)
  37. A Tribute to Heroes: Then and Now (2002)
  38. John Randolph (2004)
  39. James Boggs (1993)
  40. Letters
  41. To William Patterson (1964)
  42. To Roger Price (1965)
  43. To Readers’ Forum (1967)
  44. To Jay Wolf (1968)
  45. To Seymour Peck (1972)
  46. To My Country (2001)
  47. Afterword
  48. The Benediction (1961)