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Fola, Her Religion (2013)

Fola: This has to be one of my favourites so far. It's called Her Religion, because I was going back to The Bible, thinking what if Mary was a black woman - who says she's not, let's just say... What if God was actually Mother Nature, and the baby that came out of that union wasn't Jesus [as we know him] but a woman who'll become a mother. I say this because our mothers are willing to go on that cross for us, they're willing to give us everything, they're willing to forgive us and that's what Jesus is all about. So I placed this little baby in black Mary's arms. She's Jesus and she's nurturing. You see, she's already given birth to flowers and she doesn't even know it: that's how powerful and she about to be.

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