Nikole Hannah-Jones The 1619 Project
Oprah's Super Soul
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Do You Feel That There's Something Soulfully Spiritually Taking Place With This?
i have felt an ancestral presence on this work and when i said this to my husband he just looked at me because he's like you don't talk like that. There have been moments for instance the in the very last section of the democracy essay it begins with they say our people were born on the water. That writing doesn't even match the rest of the writing in the essay it doesn't even go. I was having a particularly hard moment in trying to write the essay I was completely overwhelmed i was like i'm gonna be a failure, she says. "That line just came to me and i felt the answers gave that to me"
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