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I Love Myself When
I Am Laughing
I Love Myself When I Am Laughing...And Then
Again When TAm Looking Mean And Impressive, edited
by Alice Walker, is an antholoev of fmirfpon ^ric
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ten by Zora Neale Hurston, the only significant female
writer of the Harlem Renaissance. This collection includes
Hurston's major contributions to American
literature, among them excerpts from Dust Tracks on a
Road, Mules and Men, Tell My Horse, Jonah's Gourd
L/neand Their Eyes Werr Watching Gori. Several essays
are also included - "How It Feels To Be Colored Me,"
"The 4Pet' Negro Experience," and "My Most
Humiliating Jim Crow Experience." In all of Hurston's
writing, she exposes herself and her thoughts about life.
Always the center of controversy and criticism, Hurston
and her work were probably most misunderstood because
of their honesty and frankness. In a review of Their Eyes
Were Watching God, Richard Wright wrote that the
novel "carries no thems, no message, no thought;" it is
just a "minstrel technique" to make white folks laugh.
Little did he know that Hurston was writing about a
black woman's search for identity which had been
thwarted by her first two husbands' attempts to make her
?.. u : ?. fL.
3uu5ci viciil.?^ne was writing about a black woman's attempt
to throw off false images forced upon her by a
society which neither allowed her to live naturally nor
freely. She was writing about "rollicking" with the springtime
across the world." And as she liked to do
throughout her writings, she represented blacks as they
lived, apart from racism - as laughing, celebrating, loving,
struggling people.
As she wrote in her controversial essay "How It Feels
- To Be Colored Me,"
Even in the helter-skelter
skirmish that is life, 1
have seen that the
world is to the strong
regardless of a little
pigmentation more or less.
No, 1 do not weep at
the world - I am too
busy sharpening my oyster
^ knife.
Extremely proud of herself and her color, Hurston lived,
loved and exalted blackness. "How can any deny
themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond
me." No anger, no remorse, but joy in being colored!
Born in poverty in Eatonville, Florida, an all-black
town, Hurston's passion for creativity was encouraged by
frr mertherwho died-when Zora was trine yeai vold/Thiy
^trait lived with her throughout life while she studied at
Morgan State College, Howard University andltarnard
College where she studied anthropology. This was the
beginning of her interest in folklore and subsequent
realization that writing was her first love.
Hurston lived a life of poverty and died penniless in a
nursing home in Florida. But she was determined to be a
great writer and earned the place her mother meant her to
occupy when she urged Zora to "jump at de sun."
Zora lives on in this Zora Neale Hurston reader. It is
.the perfect beginning for anyone unfamiliar with this astounding
author's works. May it serve as a starting point
to whet one's appetite while thirsting to read more.
Skyy To Earth
Salsoul recording group for the curtain to go up. We
Skyy may be cosmic and finally had to give up when
other-worldly oriented, but we figured it would take a
there are still some things half hour to get to the airthey
are tied down to earth port to retrieve the clothes
about. - and we were due on stage
Lead singer, songwriter in 15 minutes."
and co-producer Solomon How did Skyy solve the
Roberts, Jr. recounts one dilema? "Luckily, we all
very humanoid incident, had our Skyy promotional
"Last year, Skyy played the jackets with us, so we perFelt
Forum in New York, formed that night in blue
and had to leave immediate- jeans and satin jackets inly
afterwards for a show in stead of our astral outfits.
Washington, D.C. We The audience thought we
packed up the crew and had gone pink! But let me
equipment and headed off tell you, it was one of our
for the airport, arriving in hottest concerts to date."
plenty of time to set up. It "Next time we play
wasn't until shortly before Washington," concludes
show time that we realized Solomon, "we are going to
we had left our stage travel to the gig in our
costumes at the Felt Forum! costumes just to make sure
We spent hours trying to we've got them. I just hope
make arrangements to get we don't lose the equipmeni
them flown to D.C. in time instead!"
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"'From Osik Davis and
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diamonds of yesterday s
tributions and culture of ,
blacks in America are I
highlighted on the UNC
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February 15 (Premiere) J
7:00 p.m. - With Ossie & > 5 * B
Ruby. This 13-part
a television anthology of
music, dance, drama and
comedy. Hosted by Ossie mBB?
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also conceived and wrote V
the series, the programs will
celebrate and pay tribute to - L*
the wide spectrum of
America's multi-cultural
heritage through a diverse minority and ethnic writers,
format. performers and ^artists.
With Ossie & Ruby also 44We're reaching backward
features profiles and vignet- to the tradition of * the
tes of some very special storyteller," explains
people. One segment, for Davis, 44to affirm human
example, profiles Mother values and the human
Hale, a Harlem woman spirit." 44ln other words,"
who has devoted her lifeTo adds Ms. Dee, "we're going
rearing orphans addicted to to share with our audience
drugs. Another show the poems, stories and
spotlights the Puerto Rican music that have meant the
Traveling Theatre, a most to us. This show's
dynamic group of young ac- about the fun, adventure
tors that has become one of and struggle of life. It's
the most respected reper- about spirit, soul and
tory troupes in New York, heart."
and offers a character study February 16
of the force behind the 9:00 p.m. - To Be Young,
group's success, actress Gifted And Black. When
Miriam Colon. Among Lorraine Hansbery died in
other guests scheduled for 1965 at the age of 34, her
the series are -Actress But- plays h^d already won her
terfly McQueen, poet Sterl- international acclaim. Her
ing Brown, author James career was on the rise. 44A
Baldwin, playwright Samm- Raisin in the Sun" won her
Art Williams, Delia Reese the New York Drama
and former United Nations Critics Circle Play of the
Ambassador Andrew Year Award in 1959, and
Young. subsequently was made into
A major emphasis of the a major motion picture,
series is to introduce Understanding that her life
American television au- was inextricahlv rnnnprtpH
diences to little-known to her art, Robert
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sitively reminisces about the
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times. Paul Winfield narrates
this program.
^February 18
^ ^8^jf\, America. Three hundred
years of black history and
heritage are dramatized in a
^^F5l3B1 one-woman performance
special, The World Of My
T it America, which will
fe"-"?3 premiere Wednesday,
February 18 at 10:00 p.m.
+^KBkWKrSL ? ! Veteran actress Pauline
Myers creates a pageant of
Nemiroff, her husband, characters for the role, sprcreated
a montage verite us- inging from the writings of
ing unpublished letters, Frederick Douglass and the
poems, diaries, and scenes works of black poets
from her plays. This unique Langston Hughes, Paul
approach conjures a mov- Lawrence Dunbar and Raying
picture of the connec- mond Patterson,
tion between Miss Beginning with the era of
Hanberry's work and her slavery and moving through
personal and public ex- to the present day, Paulene
perience. Myers' "world" emerges as
she portrays over SO different
characters from all
Ruby Dee, Barbara Bar- walks of black life,
rie, Claudia NfcNeil, A1
Freeman, Jr., Roy February 25
Soheider, Blythe Danner 10:00x - The Black Dyad,
and Lauren Jones portray Deriving its title from a
Miss Hansbery, the key Greek word meaning
people in her life and the "pair," The Black Dyad is
characters she created. - an Emmy Award-winning
10:00 p.m. - Only The drama which takes a witty,
Ball Was White. The Negro knowing look at contembaseball
leagues died in the porary male/female relaearly
1960s. Their demise tionships, as seen through
went as unnoticed as their the eyes of two "dyads."
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be found are in the premiering nationally
memories and stories of Wednesday, February 25 at?
those players who rode all 10:00 p.m., uses a series of
night to play the game. On- eight vignettes to- explore
ly The Ball Was White, air- unresolved conflicts and
ing February 16 at 9:30 p.m. confrontations experienced
On Center Channel(s) 4 & by ancj between men and
26, presents a half-hour ex- women. Each scene depicts
cursion to a bittersweet era some variation on the^
son, Satchell Paige, Jimmy guilt, rejection and commitCrutchfield,
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