"You gonna call yrself something african? That be cool. Only pick something thats easy to spell and pronounce, man, cause you know, some of them african names, I mean, ok, Im down with the power to the people thing, but, no ones gonna hire you if they cant say yr name. And some of them fellas who got they african names, no one can say they names and they cant say they names neither. I mean, you dont want yr new handle to obstruct yr employment possibilities."
| What Booth says to Lincoln in "Topdog/Underdog," as the Miami Herald's Christine Dolen notes in "Suzan-Lori Parks, the first African American woman to win a Pulitzer for drama, moves from stage to page"
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"I mean, you dont want yr new handle to obstruct yr employment possibilities."
There must be a lotta people changing their names to Tyrone and Shaniqua then!
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