Nicole Hill

And I just, it just makes me, it makes me sad to know that that's possible.

It feels like it should be impossible to erase a legacy of that size, but it wasn't, which means it probably still isn't.

You know, when you say they know who we are, people know who we are.

I think a lot about the fact that there is something in our ability to disrupt the economic systems of America, the social systems, the political systems.

I mean, the whole country had one system that it was built on, which was democracy.

the enslavement of black people.

And then it ends and it has to be overturned.

And so they create a new system where it's like, all right, well, fine, we'll be separate.

And then through our strategy, through our art, through our humanity, through everything that we are, we overturn the social, political, cultural, religious, all these systems again.

And when I'm in archives, when I'm reading archives,

the like diaries of ancestors.

That's the thing that sticks with me.

I'm like, oh, this is who we are.

We have the power to articulate our lived experience in such a way that people all around the world rise up and say, this is wrong and join movements and fights for people they've never met.

And in a lot of cases I've never even seen.

And I think like, man, there's so much power in,

in that, and I didn't know, and that is by design.

Yeah, you're in. I've been on and off in D.C. for 20 years. I'm not there now, but I'm only ever away for like a couple of years at a time. But I count myself and I keep leaving. So you're in. You've been there the whole time, steady? No.

Yeah, you're in. I've been on and off in D.C. for 20 years. I'm not there now, but I'm only ever away for like a couple of years at a time. But I count myself and I keep leaving. So you're in. You've been there the whole time, steady? No.

Yeah, you're in. I've been on and off in D.C. for 20 years. I'm not there now, but I'm only ever away for like a couple of years at a time. But I count myself and I keep leaving. So you're in. You've been there the whole time, steady? No.