Leafing through the book: a journey to Atlanta and Sicily
The audio, video and photo reportage of the journey of a Sicilian-Cherokee!
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Minchia!
“Giovanni Vallone is a genius” (The Guarlian)
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Is he Sicilian or Atlantan?
Give your answer and explain your decision!
“And tell me Betty…have you been here a long time?”
“Ohhh yes, I’m a singer too.”
“How nice, and what do you sing? gospel?”
“Everything.”
“I’m recording everything you’re saying,” I said all of a sudden.
“You are…”
“Recording.”
“It’s not true.”
“Yes, it’s true.”
“You are not”
“I am yes”
“No.”
“Yes.”
When we entered Corner, Velesia shouted a prolonged “ciaoooo,” and Mama Africa did the usual “aaaahh” and the Ethiopian-American, following her usual behavior, approached Silvana and whispered “Minghia! Beautiful scarf, it goes well with the color of your eyes.”
Silvana literally amazed! “Do not worry, it’s normal. I learned her to say minchia and now she say it everytime she see me. Even though she sais minghia … but it’s ok”
She was accompanied by a black girl in her twenties. The young girl must have weighed about 300 pounds, and wore a turquoise dress that slimmed her.
She had a crazy face, beautiful however, a completion between porcelain and glass.
She was black with peach skin …
The picture portrays the Blind Boys wrapped around me! We saluted affectionately, in the sense that I kissed them and this did not surprise them so much, as they smiled and one of them said, almost to explain it to others: “He’s Italian,” as if to say, “he’s not queer”