Backwaterexperts - The Price Of Freedom Is Steep

Did I ever tell you why I stopped speaking Spanish? One day you sent me to school in a puffy yellow dress with a big red bow in my hair. I looked like Ms. Pac-Man, and so at lunch, I “accidentally” flushed that bow down the toilet. Took two flushes to get it down. When I got home you were so mad. And you started going off on me in Spanish, and I… I just didn’t hear you. I mean, I heard you, I just didn’t want to hear you. So, instead of answering back in Spanish, I just looked at you like… And you started yelling at mom: “Your daughter cannot speak Spanish anymore. She has lost her Cubanidad.” So I had an out. I pretend I can’t speak Spanish, you ain’t great at English. It was perfect.

People without glasses are really out here seeing for free

So Civil War takes place over like one weekend and then Black Panther takes place over the following 5 days or so which means all in all it was a hell of a fucking week for T’Challa

Janelle Monáe and Tessa Thompson in Make Me Feel.

So [Black Panther] is actually very African… Lupita, you grew up in Kenya. Danai, you grew up in Zimbabwe. What does it mean to both of you to see African culture celebrated in this way?