Memoir by African-American journalist Tavis Smiley, co-written with David Ritz
“I Have a Dream,” Dr. King intoned. In English class, we were just starting to learn about similes and metaphors and figures of speech. Those concepts weren’t immediately clear to me as Dr. King talked about “symbolic shadow,” but …I understood the power of symbolic language.Over the next several weeks, I spent hours studying that one speech…King’s speeches touched me so deeply and profoundly that... goodreads.com