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“She was tall and dark-skinned and looked like a Nigerian sculpture. She moved like a lioness, her every step bristling with suppressed violence.”
“The gap that was created during those transatlantic voyages hundreds of years ago.That gap is the matrix of Saudade The Longing, I think, that all Africans in the West have, that is at the root of...”
“The official erasure of any existence before enslavement as if black Americans did not exist before the yolk and the chains and whip has always created a passion for us.Black people need to find ...”
“When I was a child, to call someone 'black' was an insult, a curse word, something that made you fight.But to me it contains all of the history of oppression and resistance, of being close to the s...”
“The official erasure of any existence before enslavement – as if black Americans did not exist before the yolk and the chains and whip – has always created a passion for us.Black people need to fin...”
