In this loving, personal, and healing book, acclaimed activist and visionary Byllye Avery shows how the power of words can transform and enrich our lives. An altar is a sacred place for reflection, self-examination, and renewal. Altars provide a refuge, offering safety and solace while we explore the spirit within us. An Altar of Words provides an opportunity to create a verbal sacred space. In intimate meditations, Avery examines words such as Activism, Belonging, Courage, Love, Pride, Sisternomics, and Wisdom, and encourages each of us to strengthen our inner spirit, make changes, and be at peace.
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These meditations on activism, belonging, courage, love, patience, and power conclude with quotations from writers like Alice Walker and Sonia Sanchez.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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"Byllye Avery offers us a vital guide to affirming ourselves and the world around us and tells us that we have the power to construct our worlds as we choose. An Altar of Words is a wonderful sermon on life and how we might better see and live it in the coming millennium."
--Angela Y. Davis
"I came away from reading An Altar of Words feeling as if I had been washed in a rainbow: calm, reflective, soothed, and refreshed, and my spirit sailed a mile high. Thank you sister Byllye for creating an altar of peace and tranquility for sisters everywhere."
--Julia A. Boyd, author of In the Company of My Sisters
"Byllye Avery's life is a testimony to the power and the tenacity of the human spirit. An Altar of Words is a gift to those sisters who want to, and need to, bring the essence and power of Spirit into their own lives."
--Iyanla Vanzant, author of Acts of Faith
--Angela Y. Davis
"I came away from reading An Altar of Words feeling as if I had been washed in a rainbow: calm, reflective, soothed, and refreshed, and my spirit sailed a mile high. Thank you sister Byllye for creating an altar of peace and tranquility for sisters everywhere."
--Julia A. Boyd, author of In the Company of My Sisters
"Byllye Avery's life is a testimony to the power and the tenacity of the human spirit. An Altar of Words is a gift to those sisters who want to, and need to, bring the essence and power of Spirit into their own lives."
--Iyanla Vanzant, author of Acts of Faith
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This review is from: An Altar of Words: Wisdom To Comfort and Inspire African-American Women (Hardcover)
Ms. Avery summarizes her life of social activism and advocacy through an emotional journey of words. What drives this work is a spiritual joining of her heart and lively intellect. She lights the way for others to sort out our own experiences in a world that does not honor feelings of truth. May she burn bright for many years to come.
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New Hampshire, African American, National Black Women's Health Project, Don't Block the Blessings, Ntozake Shanfie, Sojourner Truth New!
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- In the Spirit by Susan L. Taylor on page 65, and page 154
- Raw Pearl by Pearl Bailey on page 86
- Journal of a Solitude by May Sarton on page 156
- Handbook to Higher Consciousness by Ken Keyes on page 121
- A Guide for the Advanced Soul by Susan Hayward on page 69
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