Anyone Up for a Rap??

  • Michael D Nalley
    12 years ago

    Sorry I read some propaganda that stated when he wrote "Spirits Rebellious someone told him they are burning your books in the streets of Beirut and he laughed and said all the more reason to write more.

    The idea of women choosing their own husbands made the Government of the time nervous

    Wiki Quote
    "Gibran admired the teachings on peace but argued that "young nations like his own" be freed from Ottoman control

    "They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom" Gibran

    "They" ofen say we can see gray
    In black and white who are they
    Higher case or lower case
    shades show the true face
    of a King trumped by an ace