00:00Sufering from visual deprivation, that is to say, I have not seen an independent black film in at least a
00:06week.
00:07And so my eyes are dispirited, all three of them.
00:13She was political, radical political, and she was fly.
00:17If this is what the revolution looked like, then we were down.
00:21Literature or writing is a form of activism.
00:24And every time I finished reading, Tony would say,
00:26OK, Nikki, the work is coming, but what's the plan?
00:31That unapologetic, unclenching.
00:33But the stare from the eyes.
00:36She was a black woman writer, you know, letting her ideas flow in her own language.
00:42That was empowering for us because it would kind of say, OK, well, I can write the way that I
00:47talk.
00:47She sat right beside us and said, hey, sister, what's your name?
00:54Bamba, Bamba, Bambara, Tony Cade, Bambara, even her name, Harmony.
00:59I can't wait.
00:59I can't wait.
01:00I can't wait.
01:00I can't wait.
01:01I can't wait.
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