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"...I ploughed through all sorts of difficulties that stood in my way, one of them being I was a Black Girl! But I did not know I was a Black Girl, I had always been Black and for the first sixteen years of my life I was a Girl."
- Author Jamaica Kincaid
Context: she left the Caribbean island ofAntigua, moving to NY, USA at sixteen
— Aug 22, 2026 10:00AM
"...I ploughed through all sorts of difficulties that stood in my way, one of them being I was a Black Girl! But I did not know I was a Black Girl, I had always been Black and for the first sixteen years of my life I was a Girl."
- Author Jamaica Kincaid
Context: she left the Caribbean island ofAntigua, moving to NY, USA at sixteen
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The Triumph of Bad and Cool (1974)
Published in: The Village Voice. Nov. 7, 1974
About:
Current affairs, mainly
- Muhammad Ali versus Geirge Foreman fight
- racial commentary, as the commentator was white
- the venue, Zaire (official name of the Democratic Republic of Congo from 1971 to 1997)
— Aug 22, 2026 10:49AM
Published in: The Village Voice. Nov. 7, 1974
About:
Current affairs, mainly
- Muhammad Ali versus Geirge Foreman fight
- racial commentary, as the commentator was white
- the venue, Zaire (official name of the Democratic Republic of Congo from 1971 to 1997)