Making of poetry music dance and art as culture-making in the service of nation-making. You can find writings that make that purpose for art quite explicit.
My intention is not to repudiate an African American identity but perhaps to resist how labels take hold or to make it as slow a process as possible. That's more my sense of it.
Stay excited and stay humble and good things will come.
There's a champion in all of us it's how you choose to find it.
A wedding is at once a crowded place and a private room packed with trusts and empty of all but the heart's letters which one other heart may read and decipher.
The best thing you can do is to keep riding your snowboard and love what you're doing. Without a passion for the sport it's difficult to take your riding to the next level.
Anyway culture and nation are partners inextricable from each other. National culture and nation they are reciprocities.
Snowboarding allows you to create your own path and for me it was awesome because no one was telling me what to do. I could go out on the mountain and try new things and learn for myself.