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#longread, but absolutely a #mustread! About #Prince' memoires coming out next month.

*The Book of Prince*

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/09/the-book-of-prince

"… When one of them called him the N-word, Prince threw a punch. “I felt I had to. Luckily, the guy ran away, crying. But if there was a fight—where would it end? Where should it end? How do you know when to fight?”

Those questions became more complex as racism took on insidious guises, he said. “I mean, ‘All lives matter’—you understand the irony in that,” he said, referring to a far-right slogan that was gaining some traction at the time. …"

#book %%%