“I am alive because of the blood of proud people who never scraped or begged or apologized for what they were. They lived asking only one thing of this world—-to be allowed to be.” Those words were part of the dialogue spoken by Mrs. Browne, the mother of a naive and stubbornly independent daughter,… Continue reading “I done my best, that’s all”: Farewell Cicely Tyson, 1924 – 2021