"May you live long enough to know why you were born."-Cherokee Birth Blessing- pic.twitter.com/CatJK405BLBack in 2016, Viola spoke about the home and the slave-linked land in an interview with Entertainment Weekly. "For me, I wasn't on [the land] long," she said. "I was the fifth child and we moved soon after I was born."Viola wasn't aware of the history of the land when she was young, but she went back several times to visit her grandmother."I think I read one slave narrative of someone who was on that plantation, which was horrific," she said.
The home, Viola said, was more of a "one room shack" that had no running water and no indoor bathroom. "My mom say that the day I was born all of my aunts and uncles were in the house," she said..
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