Which excerpt from The People Could Fly reflects the historical fact that enslaved people brought cultural elements of their country of origin with them to America? He raised his arms, holding them out to her. “Kum . . . yali, kum buba tambe,” and more magic words, said so quickly, they sounded like whispers and sighs.
The folks were full of misery, then. Got sick with the up and down of the sea. So they forgot about flyin when they could no longer breathe the sweet scent of Africa.
Say that long ago in Africa, some of the people knew magic. And they would walk up on the air like climbin up on a gate.
The ones that could fly shed their wings. They couldn't take their wings across the water on the slave ships.