Actress\/ singer\/ dramatist
\n\u201cI was born in Amsterdam, and my mother is Surinamese. She passed a heritage of riches on to me: I not only know the Netherlands but also another culture. I have never felt as though I had a disadvantage. I have sometimes felt as if I did not matter. Black women are not prioritized.<\/p>\n
I am often the only black woman in classes, caf\u00e9s, or productions, and I am sometimes the \u2018excuusneger.\u2019 That being said, I have never experienced it like that; I have too much talent to be an excuse. It is such a different sensation to stand on the stage with nine other black women. We are completely different; the fact that we are all black women is perhaps the only common denominator. Yet this is a strong common denominator: we have all had the experience of being treated like an underdog.<\/p>\n
This will not be a merry musical performance. After it\u2019s over, I don\u2019t think that anyone will say, \u2018What a lovely crew of women who sing and dance beautifully!\u2019 I hope that people will be shaken to their core and feel what the fight is all about.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5679,"menu_order":433,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"domain":[4,8],"class_list":["post-5676","ensemble","type-ensemble","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","domain-__nnt","domain-nite"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n