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19 Mar, 5 tweets, 3 min read
John Singleton knew.

“Singleton knew that to be Black in America is to live at the end of a sharp reality: the proximity of our dreaming and our death were ever entwined,” writes @nonlinearnotes

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“The great misconception about Singleton’s singular body of work...was that his movies were hard and unflinching in their portrayal of Black Los Angeles, which they were, but really, in their marrow, what they are about is our fundamental human enterprise: the grace of feeling.”
Before ‘Boyz n the Hood,’ “I didn’t yet understand how sorrow and loss and rage open the soul, how those sensations, pinballing off one another, give way to something transcendent, something essential to our survival, to our becoming.” - @nonlinearnotes
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"Infused within Singleton’s panoramic Black world were Black boys with the kind of fullness I was discovering in myself."

For Issue 1 of Image, @nonlinear notes reflects on the work of the late John Singleton: latimes.com/lifestyle/imag…
Issue 1 of Image is out now.

Limited quantities just dropped in our store. shoplatimes.com/image

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