Thread by @Tinu

So. My #DaughtersOfTheDust thread.

Why do I love this movie?

👏🏾 The Women
👏🏾 The Colors
👏🏾 Ibo Landing
👏🏾 The Men in supporting roles

👏🏾The poetry of the script
👏🏾 The movement from the old to the new
👏🏾 BARBRA O -Yellow Mary
👏🏾 Colorism
👏🏾 Invication of the Yoruba dieties

#DaughtersOfTheDust

This damn beauty right here. Alva Rogers right? You'll recognize her from School Daze. #DaughtersOfTheDust

I'm always overcome with the imagery. #DaughtersOfTheDust

So expressive in every scene. Eula Peazant's story is the most compelling to me. In a way it's the story of the transported African, before they became American.

I don't want to give it away. #DaughtersOfTheDust

Eli broke my heart.

"We carry these memories inside of we." #DaughtersOfTheDust

The hell she find all these beautiful people at? I feel high. #DaughtersOfTheDust

Also why won't my hair do that? I feel.. dryness. 🤣😂

My television fritzed. I have you ATT Uverse. Why doesn't TX have Verizon???

I love the part where the grandma teaches them the Afrucan word she remembers. And puts okra in their heads. #DaughtersOfTheDust

"The last of the old and the first if the new." #DaughtersOfTheDust

My grandmother would say everything in Yoruba, then English. But I've always been shy about saying Yoruba words aloud. #DaughtersOfTheDust

Today my parents spoke Yoruba to each other and I understood everything they said. 🤣 I answered in English.

I don't think I have ever let on how much I understood before.

Come on through with a parasol on the beach! #DaughtersOfTheDust

My Gran and I would sit kinda like that when we were alone. I miss her. I need to go see her in Osogbo. #TheBlackExperienceOnFilm

The men! #DaughtersOfTheDust

Bilal. On the Wanderer.

"That's how I got ruint. I want to go home. They keep me. They keep me.

So I fix the titty. They send me home."

Yellow Mary's story is so sad. I forgot her character was pregnant earlier in life. #DaughtersOfTheDust

Hagar a salty old ho. But I agree with/ "if I can't say what's on my mind then damn everybody to hell."

I normally don't call people out their name but I make an exception for her.

So yeah screw Hagar- they weren't praying to the sun dumb ass. Old respectability ass. Let people be who they are. New ain't always better. #DaughtersOfTheDust

I love the story of Ibo Landing and their foresight. & That Eula told it to the child in her womb after receiving her spirit. #TheBlackExperienceOnFilm #DaughtersOfTheDust

Eli embracing his unborn child and the wife carrying her. 😥😭 #DaughtersOfTheDust #TheBlackExperienceOnFilm

Family.

The yellow parasol.

And anytime Eula & Yellow Mary are together. #DaughtersOfTheDust

I'm sleepy but I can't never turn this movie off.

"We are as two people in one body. The last of the old and the first if the new." #DaughtersOfTheDust

Hagar evil ass won't ever let them have their tears. Reminds me of some people!

Just leave your heritage behind & embrace the nothingness - cable TV & liquor is enough! #DaughtersOfTheDust

Same people don't mind that there's Nazis everywhere getting bolder.

There's no racism in your three-block radius so it don't exist! #TheBlackExperienceInFilm

Hagar's best line "Dog don't get mad cuz you call him a dog." #DaughtersOfTheDust

"As far as this place is concerned, there ain't no such thing as a pure 'oman."
#DaughtersOfTheDust

Young homie came and got his bride. I almost felt bad for Hagar. Maybe don't name your child "Iona" - cuz you don't actually OWN her. #TheBlackExperienceOnFilm

Ok that's it. Hopefully I didn't give you much away. Just remember when you watch - this is not a Hollywoid film or pace.

Way way more special than that. A masterpiece with downright literary themes.

#DaughtersOfTheDust #TheBlackExperienceOnFilm #AAFCA #tcm

Oh for a bonus.

After you watch this, watch Beyoncé's visual album again or just the Freedom video if you don't have times. Have fun spotting parallels.

#DaughtersOfTheDust #TheBlackExperienceOnFilm #AAFCA #tcm