Liberty Blues, 2021

To me, Lady Liberty in New York Harbor will always be a Black American woman - a descendant of American slavery. Her lips will always be blue, not because she sings like Lady Day, but because she speaks the blues beyond the idiom. She nurtured America, like no other woman or man. Her price for citizenship was paid in blood, and everyone, in America and around the world, has found freedom through the expression that she herself has been denied. She is Liberty’s Blues.