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. . .there is an element of Play that is almost ritualistic in Black folk life. It serves to mediate the tensions, stress, and pain of constant exploitation and oppression.

Source: In The Black Woman's Gumbo Ya-Ya, by Terri L. Jewell, 1993.
-- bell hooks, (Sep 25 1952-____), US educator, feminist theorist, poet; Born Gloria Watkins, she assumed her great-grandmother's name; became professor of English and Women's Studies at Oberlin.

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