Jamaica Pass

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    So in Jamaica it is the aim of everybody to talk English, act English and look English. And that last specification is where the greatest difficulties arise. It is not so difficult to put a coat of European culture over African culture, but it is next to impossible to lay a European face over an African face in the same generation.
    Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)

    As I pass down the corridor
    past desperate faces at each cell,
    your eyes and my eyes may meet.
    You will be dark, unkempt,
    but I pray for one glimpse of your face
    why do I want this?
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)