title: Dream: The Words and Inspiration of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Me-we)
author: A Blue Mountain Arts Collection
description: The BLUE MOUNTAIN ARTS COLLECTION writing team in Boulder, Colorado is dedicated to the mission statement of Blue Mountain Arts founders and visionaries Steven Schutz and Susan Polis Schutz: Help people communicate their feelings.
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  ALSO BY JEWELL PARKER RHODES
  
  
  _Voodoo Dreams  
  Magic City_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  We build our temples for tomorrow, as strong as we know how, and we stand on
  top of the mountain, free within ourselves.
  
  
  —LANGSTON HUGHES, “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain,” _The Nation_
  (1926)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS  
    
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  I am deeply appreciative of all the wonderful people who helped with this
  project. Heartfelt thanks to Jane Dystel, my wonderful agent; to Miriam
  Goderich, a superb reader; and to Janet Hill, a most gifted and visionary
  editor. Sincere thanks to my research assistants—Papatya Bucak, Sanderia
  Smith, and Tayari Jones. A special thank-you to Lenard Moore for his most
  supportive and encouraging words. And, finally, much love to my daughter,
  Kelly, who inspired me with her own love of words and dedication to writi