Carolina Quotes
Embracing contradictions, not merely seeking relief or redemption from them, is a hallmark of Lumbee values.
Malinda Maynor Lowery Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Malinda Maynor Lowery, "The Low Hum," Oxford American, Issue 103 (Winter 2018, the North Carolina Music Issue), November 20, 2018
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But our granular understanding of places is critical to who we are—not just North Carolina, not just Robeson County, but the dozens of settlements within our territory.
I recorded some of these hymns twenty-two years ago, and even now I can hear the low hum, the polyphonic tenor harmonies, the melody buried well within a nest of knowledge generations old.
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