There are so many noises going on inside of you, so many echoes of all sorts, so many internalizings of the rumble and the traffic, the confusions, the disorders by which your environment is peopled that I wonder if you can get still enough—not quiet enough—still enough to hear rumbling up from your unique and essential idiom the sound of the genuine in you.
— Rev. Dr. Howard Thurman, “The Sound of the Genuine”
