keep body and soul together

:  to retain in one's possession or power

:  to refrain from granting, giving, or allowing

:  to have in control

:  the means or provisions by which one is kept

:  one that keeps or protects: such as

:  fortress, castle

:  the main part of a plant or animal body especially as distinguished from limbs and head :  trunk

:  the main, central, or principal part: such as

:  the nave of a church

:  to give form or shape to :  embody

:  represent, symbolize

:  the immaterial essence, animating principle, or actuating cause of an individual life

:  the spiritual principle embodied in human beings, all rational and spiritual beings, or the universe

:  god

:  of, relating to, or characteristic of black Americans or their culture

:  designed for or controlled by blacks

:  in or into one place, mass, collection, or group

:  in a body :  as a group

:  in or into contact, connection, collision, or union

:  appropriately prepared, organized, or balanced

:  composed in mind or manner :  self-possessed