Colton’s Reviews > A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance > Status Update

These are some of the best essays I’ve ever read.

“In praise of all my body can and cannot do, I wish to figure out how it can best sing with all of yours for a moment in a room where the walls sweat. I wish to lock eyes across a dance floor from you while something our mothers sang in the kitchen plays over the speakers. I want us to find each other among the forest of writhing and make a deal.”