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“We have even believed, leaping from slave ships,
that the deep ocean waters would return us to freedom by traveling back to the past, before the vicious trade in flesh. In the successive waves of reckonings through the steady meanness of life, we have relied upon a blues-soaked sensibility: sustaining, being, and becoming ourselves.”