Katherine Scott

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There is truly no person or thing that exits the room in one outfit and returns anew in an entirely different outfit like the butterfly, who first crawls listlessly along the landscape before spinning itself a bed, inside which it can become beautiful. A winged creature, even. What a mercy it must be, to be able to sleep oneself into both beauty and flight. A world that knew you, but then not at all.
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
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