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She had the kind of hair that I’ve now come to associate with teenage proto-butches: long, almost down to her waist, a length that suggested not vanity but accidental neglect.
“It is a strange but persistent thing: to be possessed, desired, revolting. This triad of relations to power has been a long burden of Blackness, and its people.”
― Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People
― Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People
“It's freedom we're seeking, after all; it's not a war or a board game in which we easily declare victory or defeat.”
― Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People
― Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People
“You see? Blue is a portal. Our ancestors have worked so hard from the other side to keep us going; this is how we tend to them in return.”
― Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People
― Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People
“Black watching, worry, caution, are wise because what if the ones holding out their hands don't, in fact, shake yours warmly, but instead snatch you into snares? And you lose your balance, gone in an instant, like a fly in Venus flytrap.”
― Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People
― Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People
“Movement is divine word. To call organizing for freedom "the movement" was a strike of genius. The moves in our culture of art and performance-be they dancing, playing jazz, blues, or hambone, singing or hoofing-are all the art of living. And forgive us, Lord, for the Western sacrilege of sometimes being mere spectators to that divinity. It beckons participation.”
― Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People
― Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People
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