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Black Power was really a major challenge to the social privileges and structures of the kind of privilege that I had grown up with. That whole belief… that you will only be able to advance if you are perfectly behaved, if you present yourself as what white people would consider an ideal of whiteness… all of that just began to burst open.

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I resist lists. It must be all those ‘Most Important’ and ‘Best of the Year’ ones I compiled in my years as a beat critic. I often felt guilty about what I left out.

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As a little girl in the ’50s, I couldn’t wear a purple-and-white flowered skirt with a red blouse – those colors were too loud. My parents were not into that ‘We are Negros that wear all beige,’ but there was a line you could walk over that could signal vulgar, crass, rather than clever use of color. And that outfit crossed over the line.

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May 14, 2024

As a little girl in the ’50s, I couldn’t wear a purple-and-white flowered skirt with a red blouse – those colors were too loud. My parents were not into that ‘We are Negros that wear all beige,’ but there was a line you could walk over that could signal vulgar, crass, rather than clever use of color. And that outfit crossed over the line.

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May 14, 2024

I resist lists. It must be all those ‘Most Important’ and ‘Best of the Year’ ones I compiled in my years as a beat critic. I often felt guilty about what I left out.

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