Secrets Behind The Making Of 12 Years A Slave - Page 8
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Nneka Samuel
A Fire Next Time
In both the book and script, Patsey is described as being effortlessly sensual. Lupita had difficulty interpreting that description, but got a little help from James Baldwin’s masterwork, The Fire Next Time. “To be sensual…is to rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in everything that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread,” she said.
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