For immediate release (1/6/99)
Contact: Jimmie Lee Robinson, 773-778-1476
January 3, 1999
I ended my fast on January 1, 1999. I fasted for 61 days. It was difficult but every good thing comes out of struggle. Without struggle there is no achievement. The greatness of all great men and great people came out of poverty and struggle. Most of all your great men came from the poorest of the poor. I learned from great men and women of the past from the books that they wrote.
Success comes from a struggle to bring about a change within one's own self. And in order to bring about a change in the world, the God within us has to be happy to express himself. Being clean within one's own self is to give respect to the God within. When you respect yourself, with good internal hygiene, then you give respect to the God within you. We were formed in triple darkness.
How would you like to live within a garbage truck? How do you think the God feel within you when He wants to express Himself, being surrounded with impurities, odors and filth. I'm trying not to suffocate the God within. We have to make the place within ourselves pure, that God can dwell there, and express Himself inwardly and outwardly. This requires study and understanding.
God is for saving Maxwell Street, the shopping area, and historical buildings. Thats left should remain as a landmark and to be used to inspire and encourage our youth to the moral plains, the moral roads, to a real life. Not only for this generation but for all generations yet to come -- this great place of respect for life.
This will be the place that gives honor to the purities of life: kosher living, people helping each other, making it possible for the poor to survive and continue to grow. The meaning of God is: one for all and all for one. With God we are all winners. Can't you see WE need no miracle, no dope, -- no drugs of any kind!
People come from all around the world tour Maxwell Street, the area. We must give respect to the entertainers, musicians, and Blues players, churches and church groups, according to their time. In this great historical area, I know that God will change the hard heartedness and stiff neckness of Chancellor Broski and President Stukel and all of those who want to wipe out this sacred historical area.
--Written by Chicago's very own Jimmie Lee Robinson, who regularly appears in the Chicago Public Library's cable show: Jimmie Lee Robinson, Speaking of the Blues.
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