“People are constantly creating what we call ‘maroon spaces’—free communities, free platforms for thought and expression. I think that that’s just in the DNA of Black Atlantic culture.… There’s always the imperative towards the emancipated space.”—Greg Tate, from an interview with Giovanni Russonello, April 30, 2015, http://www .capitalbop.com/greg-tate-on-burnt-sugar-afrofuturism-and-the- maroon-spaces-that-music-allows/.
