1973, 74…when the Lower East Side landlords were letting buildings burn down just to get the insurance. - Lois Elaine Griffith
" "1973, 74…when the Lower East Side landlords were letting buildings burn down just to get the insurance.
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About Lois Elaine Griffith
Lois Elaine Griffith is an artist/writer/teacher and one of the founders of the . Of Barbadian roots, She is author of the novel Among Others She was the co-editor of Action: The Nuyorican Poets Cafe Theater Festival (1997), with . Her plays include Cocanut Lounge, Dance Hall Snapshots, Hoodlum Hearts and White Sirens.
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Some people are either unable to or unwilling to take responsibility for where they are. They have a past. They have ancestors. Here in the States, we don’t pay too much homage to our ancestors. And at the Cafe we were always very conscious that we don’t come from nothing...There’s something in Latin American culture and Native American culture—and Caribbean culture too—we have no problems in conversing with the dead. We have no problems in talking about the ancestors and the blood in conversation. That is not comfortable in American culture.
The concept behind the Cafe was to allow everyone who wanted to speak to have time and an audience to speak in public…hearing what Latino, Puerto Rican poets, artists, declamadores were doing made me value my own culture, my West Indian culture, that I had always kind of shoved to the back, wanting to be just like all the other Blacks here, no one to single me out.
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