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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’ on Writing The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois

Well-Read Black Girl with Glory Edim

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You Write a Book All About Black Women and Then Put to Boys

When i would hear these songs, they really impressed something upon me. I have never forgotten those moments. That's why the church is all in the the book. There are west african gestures in the book with two particular characters that nobody ever talks about, but they're there. And when i think about people who are not descendet black folks who are not descended from the transatlantic slave trade, who are here too, and here are to gethers finally. You know, we were separated for hundreds of years, and here we are back together. To me, that is a miracle,. yes.

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