"…Blackness for me is sort of like air, I’m constantly perceiving it, but not really thinking about it as my mind is on more immediate concerns. And then sometimes I’m forced into a hyper-awareness of it and that awareness is at times pleasant, at times noxious…"
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On addressing the Black experience in his works in “‘The entire human experience’: An interview with Rion Amilcar Scott” in SmokeLong Quarterly
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