Megan’s Reviews > White Negroes: When Cornrows Were in Vogue... and Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation > Status Update

"The appropriation of black language cannot be stopped, except only if we were to leave for Mars and never come back. At issue isn't the transmission, but the vacuous want behind it--as if black culture lives to rescue mass culture from boredom. (...) For the curse to be undone, the desire must be undone, and undoing the desire means taking a knife to its insides and learning what it's full of."