What Inspires Toni Asante Lightfoot?
Dream #42 (after 3 shots of southern comfort and two manhattans) harriett and sojourner are talking in the parlor while frederick is burning teacakes in the kitchen all are loud and discussing what freedom looks like im laughing too hard too write down what they are saying a dead robin is sitting on her nest above the broom closet when out of nowhere bull conner bursts through the front door wearing safron robes singing stevie wonder’s saturn no one ever gets back to the conversation of what freedom looks like everyone’s just singing in the distance bombs explode and get louder with each verse until a rolling cloud of debris comes through the house and we all run out the back door being built by clarence thomas but when we get to the yard we see the trade centers falling toward us bull connor taps me on my shoulder leads me to the basement where ghandi, king, and eric williams are making bombs out of cotton and rum harriett creaks down the stairs behind me saying it’s time to wake up w
