faux archivist.

"You want to know a secret? It doesn't end or begin. Just changes form. Water. All these drops might be a river someday. Might be snow. Might be in you."

My mom used to put a little bit of dirt in my hand. “This you,” she said, “Dirt and water.” Her mama had said the same to her. When it rain, it’s like it’s singing to you. You can smell it in the air, taste the rain in the dirt.

All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (2023) dir. Raven Jackson

Lorna Simpson | Interiors, LA 1957 - NY 2009

by Kwame Brathwaite

Billie Holiday, Berlin, 1954.

Fats Domino 1928-2017

Tina Turner

Music in Film: Summer of Soul (… Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021) dir. Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson

Ahmir-Khalib Thompson’s Summer of Soul (…or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021)

funk singer, betty davis ꨄ

Tina Turner