Intimate vérité, archival footage, and visually innovative treatments of poetry take us on a journey through the dream | dG1fRjB4Q1h1TU83Vkk
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00:00 [MUSIC]
00:02 I was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, but I am an Earthling.
00:06 [MUSIC]
00:09 It is an honor to introduce this woman.
00:11 She is the most renowned black poet this world has ever seen.
00:15 [MUSIC]
00:16 There is no you without this goddess.
00:19 So you're sort of a prophet?
00:20 I would hate to think of myself as being a prophet.
00:23 Prophets die.
00:24 [MUSIC]
00:28 I'm also a dreamer, but I don't understand why my dreams can't come true.
00:32 [MUSIC]
00:35 So I will continue to do what my grandfather could not do.
00:38 I will fight.
00:39 I am a fighter.
00:40 [MUSIC]
00:41 The history of our people is a great history, and it's our duty to tell that story.
00:46 [MUSIC]
00:49 This is not a poem.
00:52 This is an explosion.
00:54 This is a rocket.
00:56 [MUSIC]
00:57 Let's ride.
00:58 [MUSIC]
01:04 [BLANK_AUDIO]