…I was struck by the modernity that jazz anticipated and directed, and by its unreasonable optimism. Whatever the truth or consequences of individual entanglements and the racial landscape, the music insisted that the past might haunt us, but it would not entrap us. It demanded a future…
from her “foreword” of the novel “Jazz”
by Toni Morrison
(via ziatroyano)
Source: lenallure
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