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A Dance Class in Havana, Cuba, 2017

‘There’s an interesting line in one of the Hemingway books, he says two men, he’s in Cuba. Two men came towards him one was Cuban and one was black. [Toni Morrison pauses for a long time] 

Maybe they were BOTH Cuban, but you know he was making… the black man has no home, he doesn’t belong in Cuba, he’s outside of it. So I find in so much classical white literature this use to which black people are put as different, you know as separate.’

Toni Morrison at the Hay Festival, 2014 discussing the inspiration for her short story Recitatif