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If you want to know what’s happening in a nation, look at the music.
“She said if you want people to change, you have to show them what it looks like.�
“There’s always gotta be a first time, right?� Elroy said finally, still smiling. “There’s always gotta be someone who shows the world how it’s done.� “You wanna change the world, you gotta show ’em what it looks like,� Esther agreed,
It is my hope that novels like The Songbook of Benny Lament echo some of the truths that I learned from Ms. Gladys. She said many times, “How can we ever learn to love each other if we don’t know each other’s stories?� And I took that to heart. May we seek to learn each other’s stories so that we might love each other a little better.
