This is my very first post, on the 29th of September 2010. One year ago, I started an adventure in England, a country quite close to this one but, as I discovered with the passing of time, distant and different from my hometown. Some months before that I fell in love with a great guy: he was black, gay and…dead. His name was Langston Hughes and he opened my mind to the African-American experience, which I developed in Nottingham. Caroling Dusk is the name of this blog and it takes it from the compilation of black poems Countee Cullen made on 1927.
As you may guess, this blog is going to tackle questions of race and art most of the time, but as I am a human being, I cannot promise sometimes my words turn into something more…personal. Yet I want to begin with in a more “professional” way and my choice for today is taken from a speech by Malcolm X, that black man some of my friends find particularly handsome and I find extremely inspiring.
“There’s only one way to be free. It’s not something that someone gives to you. It’s something that you take. Nobody can give you independence. Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it. If you can’t take it, you don’t deserve it.”
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