Conversations With God: Two Centuries of Prayers by African Americans. - book reviews

By James Melvin Washington (HarperCollins. 1994. $20)--Eavesdropping at the bedsides of Phillis Wheatley, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Martin Luther King Jr., and a host of other African-American luminaries, this landmark collection of more than 199 prayers and hymns shows how cherished words between God and his children have always been nourishing, guiding beacons. It took Washington more than a decade to compile these precious writings from modem literature, newspapers, periodicals, slave journals, and even from Sojourner Truth's Bible. This anthology of amazingly graceful passages will serve as a testament of hope for those who have carried everything to God in prayer.

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