Randomness

"You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down."-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

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[byronicist]

“Then isn’t there something wrong in a house—in a world—where all dreams, good or bad, must depend on the death of a man?”

Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun (1958)

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“The other patrollers were boys and men of bad character; the work attracted a type. In another country they would have been criminals, but this was America.”

— Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad (via quotespile)

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[philomaela]

Costume Appreciation: George Kinte (Roots, Costume Designer - Ruth Carter)

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The Color Purple was published 40 years ago in 1982. It is an epistolary novel written by American author Alice Walker which won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction. It was later adapted into a film which released on February 7th, 1986 (US). 

THE COLOR PURPLE (1985) dir. Steven Spielberg

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♫ We’re your dreamgirls, dreamgirls will never you no, no and you’ve got to do is dream,baby… we’ll be there ♫

DREAMGIRLS (2006) dir. Bill Condon

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illustrations from Addy’s Little Brother

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CHEVALIER (2023)

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Robert E. and Grace played by Henry G. Sanders and Jonelle Allen on the Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman television series. 

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Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you're the funniest person you've ever heard of.

Maya Angelou

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Thandie Newton as Beloved, Oprah Winfrey as Sethe and Kimberly Elise as Denver in BELOVED – 1998

Source: imdb.com

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Dorothy Dandridge on the set of film Marco Polo (1962).

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Louis Gossett, Debbie Allen, and Ben Vereen in “The Sentry Collection Presents Ben Vereen: His Roots” (1978).

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Olivia Cole as Maggie Roger in Backstairs at the White House (1979).

Backstairs at the White House is a 1979 NBC television miniseries based on the book My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House by Lillian Rogers Parks(with Frances Spatz Leighton). The series is the story of behind-the-scenes workings of the White House and the relationship between the staff and the First Families.

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Maya Angelou in “Roots,” January 23, 1977

ABC Photo Archives, Getty Images

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Let’s live our lives without living in the fold of old wounds.

Julie Dash, screenplay for Daughters of the Dust