Amma was shorter, with African hips and thighs perfect slave girl material one director told her when she walked into an audition for a play about Emancipation whereupon she walked right back out againin turn a casting director told Dominique she was wasting his time when she turned up for a Victorian drama when there weren’t any black people in Britain thenshe said there were, called him ignorant before also leaving the roomand in her case, slamming the door
-Bernardine Evaristo
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