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“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 blues and jazz and soul and rap. If you listen you can hear it, elusive, fleeting, full of melancholy anger.”
― Bonnie Greer, A Parallel Life

tags: african-americans, history, home, identity, roots

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“Through her voice I saw a free woman, down on her land, a woman who knew how to kill her own chickens, hunt her own possum, cut her own cotton, fix her own roof, make her own whiskey, walk in her own shoes, and speak her mind, tell her own story.

A black woman.
Ready for the journey.
The Journey.”
― Bonnie Greer, A Parallel Life

tags: black-women, blackness, life

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“I was writing, writing all the time, in my head, looking out at the world.”
― Bonnie Greer, A Parallel Life

tags: dreams, writing

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“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 out. We have to find out Who We Are and Where We Come From.”
― Bonnie Greer, A Parallel Life

tags: black-history, history, home, identity, slavery

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“But you must still know to respect other people's faith.'
'Why? We don't respect any other delusion. We lock up people who believe they're Christ, yet we're supposed to humour those who believe in him.'
'By definition, faith is irrational: a belief you hold against the normal rules of evidence.'
'In which case I believe in Jedi”
― Michael Arditti, The Enemy of the Good

tags: christianity, religion, star-wars

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