The world is a stage, the stage is a world of entertainment. We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age. Black people have worked in the entertainment industry as far back in time when Kings and Queens reigned in Egypt. Traveling abroad to Europe in France men and women of African Descent performed numerous acts of drama and comedy on live stage entertainment. From the fiddle to the bass guitar, we see African people demonstrate their ancient master trade in the form of music accompanied by woodwinds, brass winds, strings and the drums.
Orchestras and solo musicians sported their talents on live stage that erupted in unanimous applause all over the globe. When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty. Sometimes, if you begin to sing in a halfhearted mood, you can sing yourself up the ladder. Singing will often make the heart rise.
Success is where preparation and opportunity meet. Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts. Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. Sports played professionally are entertainment. Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes. Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is. Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player. In boxing, they say it's the punch you don't see coming that knocks you out. In the wider world, the reality we ignore or deny is the one that weakens our most impassioned efforts toward improvement. Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.
