The grinding and the gyrating is within us, it's in our genes. We were not taught it. We don't have to be taught how to do it. When the music starts, we do what comes naturally. I feel sorry for those people who are not comfortable with being who they are, with being black, with what coming from Africa is all about.
Carnival means time to let go, to let it all hang out.
Time for breaking out of all those chains, placed on us by people who really don't know themselves. Obviously Alison Hines has suffered no ill effects from de iron. She knows exactly who she is.