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I am not enslaved, but by showing the living what the dead went through, I live a scary and unsettling past. I feel like a doorway for all the spirits of the plantations I visit. I feel their souls passing through me as I cook and tell their stories. At the end of the day, I feel like a terminal and less like a man who is breathing and aware.
— May 26, 2021 09:19AM
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It's an easy metaphor for the "two" Souths-one black, one white-intertwined and complicated. The storm of history-from Africa to America, slavery to freedom, Middle Passage to this, our now-is not trivia. It is in every cell of our bodies.
— May 11, 2021 12:58PM
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The connection between and heritage of both Southern and soul cuisines is hotly debated and arouses old racial stereotypes, prejudices, and cultural attitudes and intercultural misunderstandings
— May 11, 2021 12:54PM