His voice is heroic and connects to a tradition of dissenting black voices which have always found a place in America.
By the way, when I stood in the cemetery at West Point, I tried hard to connect to a tradition not only military, rather "our" collective history.
The roots of his art run very, very deep and connect to a tradition that had been neglected and nearly lost by the time Davidson began carving as a teenager in the early 1960s.
But they also keep the film connected to a Hollywood tradition that requires good and bad to meet with a bang, however things may have occurred in life.
Englander's characters find themselves helplessly connected to a Jewish tradition that gives them an identity, whether they seek it or not.
I'm a writer situated in the Nigerian disapora, and the Caine prize means a lot – it feels like I'm connected to a long tradition of African writers.
Before DuPont moved the factory to Mexico, it was connected to a larger tradition of making fuses and blasting caps that began in Pompton Lakes in the 1880's.
I had already read a couple of the novels of awakening on this list, but I soon discovered a trove of them, which not only inspired me as I wrote, but made my work feel connected to a rich tradition of feminist writing.
As religious leaders and teachers, I think we have to help people feel a sense of majesty in being connected to a particular tradition, while also highlighting its more widely relational and even universalistic elements.
Only as Black children and young people, and Black families and communities begin to talk amongst themselves about their collective suffering in schools, and come to understand it as connected to a long tradition of anti-Black violence, do they come to realize, as Shoniqua Kemp in Detroit, that something has to change, "one way or another".
