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...Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple whose family picked cotton in Georgia, once said her mother was “an artist whose palette was a flower garden”....
..., France; Scott Forbes, London; Judith Hadley, USA Polymath 1,014: Peter Boyd, Wiltshire Crossword 16,117: Mary Aclandhood, London; Rev T K Hole, Sheffield; Robert Smith, Norfolk Polymath 1,013: Bob Walker...
...At the balls, walkers would be judged on their look, their dance moves and their “realness” — how convincingly they passed as heterosexual....
...dressed, optimistically if impractically, in white, and took to the main stage with a mixture of folk maximalism, Weimar angularity, calypso (a fast run-through of The Mighty Sparrow’s “Good Morning Mr Walker...
...Langston Hughes conflated the phrase with chocolate skin tones in his lascivious ode to women of various shades: Brown sugar lassie, Caramel treat, Honey-gold baby, Sweet enough to eat....
...Langston Hughes suggested a vivid and pithy definition: “When the shoe strings break/On both your shoes/And you’re in a hurry/That’s the blues.”...
...“It would be humiliating if [Mr Santorum] lost Louisiana,” says Thomas Langston, a professor of political science at Tulane University in New Orleans. “I cannot see that happening.”...
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