To know me,

you must

first

know

the people whom I call

ancestors.


Photo: BAM 2024 Resident Artist Program/Nate Langston Palmer

You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.

James Baldwin

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.

W.E.B. Du Bois