Richard Blanco — How to Love a Country
On Being with Krista Tippett
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How to Love a Country Is a Statement
How to love a country is a statement. It's also a self help book for to day. How i sang, oh, beautiful like a song at church with my mother,. Her cuban accents ailing up every vowel, o be tifol Yet in perfect pitch, delicate and tuned to the radiant beams of stained glass light. And each verse rising from my gut, every exclamation of praise i belted out until my throat heard america... how i began to read nichi and doubt od yet still wishd for god to shed his grace on thee and crown thy good with brotherhood. So it's america the beautiful, which is wasy reference to the song.
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