TWILIGHT TOWN

                                            TWILIGHT TOWN

Janelle Monáe and Tessa Thompson in Make Me Feel.

You should go. I mean, this is something that you’ve wanted for, y’know, forever. 

hey man, we all can’t be like you. I wish we were all rose-colored, too. 

So [Black Panther] is actually very African… Lupita, you grew up in Kenya. Danai, you grew up in Zimbabwe. What does it mean to both of you to see African culture celebrated in this way?

Did I ever tell you why I stopped speaking Spanish? One day you sent me to school in a puffy yellow dress with a big red bow in my hair. I looked like Ms. Pac-Man, and so at lunch, I “accidentally” flushed that bow down the toilet. Took two flushes to get it down. When I got home you were so mad. And you started going off on me in Spanish, and I… I just didn’t hear you. I mean, I heard you, I just didn’t want to hear you. So, instead of answering back in Spanish, I just looked at you like… And you started yelling at mom: “Your daughter cannot speak Spanish anymore. She has lost her Cubanidad.” So I had an out. I pretend I can’t speak Spanish, you ain’t great at English. It was perfect.