“Because the mask is your face, the face is a mask, so I'm thinking of the face as a mask because of the way I see faces is coming from an African vision of the mask which is the thing that we carry around with us, it is our presentation, it's our front, it's our face.”

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If a Bus Could Talk

1999

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Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky

1992

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My Dream of Martin Luther King (Dragonfly Books)

1998

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Dinner at Aunt Connie's House (Hippo Cafe Club)

1996

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