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My mother, Lily, was born in 1911 on a dining room table in the Bronx. She would live through World War I, the Spanish Flu, Women’s Suffrage, the Roaring Twenties, the Stock Market Crash, the Great Depression, and World War II before she was 30. She took her final bow on June 23, 2014 at over 103 years young. During the more-than-six decades that Lily and I were figuring us out, expectations for women were transformed again and again by the women’s movement, the sexual revolution, and the subsequent mandate for women to “have it all.” In my career, now in its 50th year, one of the roles I had the good fortune to play, in what I believe to be one of the best musicals ever written, is Rose, in Arthur Laurents, Julie Styne, and Stephen Sondheim’s “Gypsy.” ....
“Three hours south of Chicago. It’s in the Midwest.” He pretends to know where that is while the spark of hope that I might be someone-who-knows-someone-he-knows fades from his eyes. “Where are you from?” I ask. “Ivory Coast. You are from America, but you wrap your hair like an African woman.” Pride lights up his eyes, but I am not home for him, only a déjà vu of home in a sea of unfamiliarity and unfulfilled yearning.
Maybe my African brothers and sisters are upset that slavery happened too. Maybe my face is an unpleasant reminder of a past that some like to forget, floating around the grocery store investigating apples, examining yams, and frowning at palm oil prices. An anachronism of sorts. Perhaps I am a ghost of Africa’s past, present, and future swirled into one little Black girl looking both right at home and so far from it. ....