“… conections to the past must not be severed if we are to regain a sense of what ‘touching each other in the spirit’ can be like, but also that a sense of history must not simply be allowed to degenerate into the remembrance of paralyzing images.”       - Zora Neale Hurston
Lionnet-Mccumbe, Francoise, “Autoethnography: The An-Archic Style of Dust Tracks on a Road”,  in Zora Neale Hurston : Critical Perspectives Past and Present  / Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and K.A. Appiah, 251. New York: Amistad, 1993.

“What we are most interested in here are the expressive and symbolic aspects of the lives of ordinary people. Unlike most historians, we are not so interested in the institutional as in the social history; not so much concerned with the lives of the exceptional as with ordinary individuals. Yet much here will be quite exceptional, for in the cultural means which black people have developed in the Americas there is muh that will or should strike awe in the observer.”      -  John F. Szwed and Roger D. AbrahamsSzwed, John F., and Roger D. Abrahams. Afro-American Folk Culture : An Annotated Bibliography of Materials from North, Central, and South America, and the West Indies. Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1978.

“Yearning is the word that best describes a common psychological state shared by many of us, cutting across boundaries of race, class, gender, and sexual practice. Specifically, in relation to the post-modernist deconstruction of ‘master’ narratives, the yearning that wells in the hearts and minds of those whom such narratives have silenced is the longing for critical voice.   -  Bell Hooks
hooks, bell. “Postmodern Blackness.” Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics, South End Press, 1990, pp. 23–31.

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