"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."
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Lois 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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