"I looked over and Jim Morrison was dancing the jitterbug with my grandmother on the coffee table."

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I think that the language that we use is a ritual, that my [maternal] grandmother was called "Big Mama" is a ritual, that my daughter calls my father "Baba" and my mother "Mama" is a ritual. There are common African-American rituals that are a part of my experience. If I ever get married some day I would like to jump the broom.

— Jamilah Lemieux