11/10/2022 0 Comments I am alive book![]() ![]() I have authority over death and the world of the dead. I am the living one! I was dead, but now I am alive forever and ever. I died, but now I am alive forever, and I have the keys to death and the world of the dead.Īnd alive, and was dead, and behold I am living for ever and ever, and have the keys of death and of hell. I am he who lived and died, and behold, I am alive to the eternity of eternities, amen, and I have the key of Death and of Sheol.Īnd the living one. I was dead, but look-I am alive forever and ever, and I hold the keys of death and Hades.Īnd the Living one and I was dead, and behold, I am alive for evermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades. ![]() I died, but see, I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades (the realm of the dead).Īnd the Living One. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death.Īnd the living One and I was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades.Īnd the Ever-living One. I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. I am he that liveth, and was dead and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen and have the keys of hell and of death. And I was dead, and behold I am living to the ages of the ages, and I have the keys of Death and of Hades. I was dead, and behold, now I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of Death and of Hades.Īnd the Living One. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades. I died, but look-I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and the grave.Īnd the living one. Perhaps most women must deal with a similar inheritance, the legacy of a woman whose death you cannot possibly pinpoint because she died so many, many times and because, even before she became my mother, the life of that woman was taken I say it was taken away.I am the Living One I was dead, and now look, I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades. I mean I am not sure my mother’s suicide was something extraordinary. Certainly this is all about me as a woman and my life work. I wanted to get well and what I wanted to do as soon as I was strong, actually, what I wanted to do was I wanted to live my life so that people would know unmistakably that I am alive, so that when I finally die people will know the difference for sure between my living and my death.Īnd I thought about the idea of my mother as a good woman and I rejected that, because I don't see why it's a good thing when you give up, or when you cooperate with those who hate you or when you polish and iron and mend and endlessly mollify for the sake of the people who love the way that you kill yourself day by day silently.Īnd I think all of this is really about women and work. I thought about my mother and her suicide and I thought about how my father could not tell whether she was dead or alive. I never wanted to be weak again as long as I lived. "Many Rivers To Cross" (1981) later published in Some of Us Did Not Die : New and Selected Essays of June Jordan (2002)Ĭontext: I wanted to be strong. June Jordan Poet, essayist, playwright, feminist and bisexual activist 1936 - 2002 „I wanted to live my life so that people would know unmistakably that I am alive, so that when I finally die people will know the difference for sure between my living and my death.“ ![]()
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