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I was losing myself in the language of his movements, the slow rise and fall of a cigarette as he lifted it to his lips and brought it back down again, each drag leaving a small spherical haze to dissipate against his face.
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“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
“A romance of Africa, a romance of America, a fetish of nationalism, myths of superior origins, or rankings of authenticity or admixture-each type of posturing, myth, and hierarchy is a danger because they lead us to either believe the funhouse distortion of the blue-eyed mirror or run away from the ugliness of history.”
― 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
“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
“One strange feature of Blackness is how often it is treated as static. Like Black just is as it will ever be. But displaced and misnamed people are ever evolving out of necessity. The truth is the condition is like waterways, blood vessels, circuits.”
― 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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