<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=450623" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To Learn, To Know, To Heal, To Grow</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'm often asked: <br>'What caused you to collect Slave Artifacts, <br>And take them on the road, displaying them in cases, <br>Raw and real? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My answer is a simple one, 'To heal.'<br>'To heal? ' they ask. 'What is there to be healed? '<br>I answer with paternal patience, as<br>I would a child. <br>Then, I commence my tale.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was not long ago two ladies stood<br>Together at a showing on my tour, <br>An African American and a Caucasian. <br>One to seek her heritage, <br>The other to find satisfaction that<br>Hyperbole was the foundation for<br>The stories of the hardships slaves endured.<br>Within my cases lies reality.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sight of whips and branding irons had chilled<br>The heart and soul of the Caucasian, <br>Tears Began to fill her eyes and, unabashed, she wept<br>Aloud in disbelief at what she saw.<br>'All lies. What I have read and learned are lies.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The African American embraced<br>Her, and together, openly as one, <br>They wept. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">That moment was perfumed with hope<br>And strength. It was as if I had been bathed<br>In silence, with an element of love; <br>A fluid mist, which overflowed with life<br>And sweetness, flooding out hostilities.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There was a recognition as to man's<br>Inhuman acts of cruelty to man.<br>There was a glow of light and life. <br>I saw magnificence within that scene. <br>I saw within that tiny aspect 'Truth.' <br>I saw the dawn of reason shine upon the dust of years.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lynn+W.+Petty">Lynn W. Petty</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=450623" data-title="To Learn, To Know, To Heal, To Grow de Lynn W. Petty" data-description="I'm often asked: 'What caused you to collect Slave Artifacts, And take them on the road, displaying them in cases, Raw and real? ' My answer is a simple one, 'To heal.' 'To heal? ' they ask. 'What is there to be healed? ' I answer with paterna..."></div> </div> </div>

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