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“She abandoned ballet sophomore year, first semester, despite great potential and greater “commitment”. Had seen it: could lift her big toe to her forehead, demanded a split of her muscular legs, had defied her flat arches to bend into pointe shoes, could do all the steps in her sleep, no mistakes, but had stood at the bar in a line that September and noticed the palette, the pinks and the whites, light brown hair, light brown wood, clean-straight lines in the sunlight, and noticed herself, neither long, straight, nor light, and had seen in an instant what was meant by commitment: she was great at ballet but was no ballerina.” — Taiye Selasi, Ghana Must Go; pg. 213
Posted on: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 18:03:51 +0000

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