My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences.
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Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal.
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They wanted us to sit down, but there wasn't a place to sit down. The place was so small you could stand in the middle and touch everything. They must have slept sitting up on the couch.
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