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If you were a successful upper-middle-class Negro girl in the 1950s and ’60s, you were, in practice and imagination, a white Protestant upper middle-class girl. Young, good-looking white women were the most desirable creatures in the world. It was hard not to want to imitate them; it was highly toxic, too, as we would learn.

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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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