Finding Your Roots

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Henry

But Andre's own tastes were shaped in a very unlikely place. Durham, North Carolina, where his maternal grandmother took him to church every Sunday without fail. My grandma was a domestic worker at Duke University for 50 years, (Henry assents) but on the weekends she rose to her regality. (Henry chuckles) Her regalness when she put on that hat, and put that handkerchief in the handbag, and those gloves matching her handbag. And the handbag matching her shoes, and that little black suit or that little navy blue coat, and we marched off into church. And I discovered fashion. Color, fashion, attitude. Attitude. It was the attitude. (Henry laughs) Everyone went in the church was a queen. Everyone was. - Every sister, every niece, every woman, and every man.