I gotta feeling that tonight's gonna be a good night

The opening extract from Toni Morrison's novel Sula alludes to the balcony areas of white churches, cinemas, theatres and opera houses where Black people sat during the time of segregation in the USA, which were referred to in the 1900s as 'nigger heavens', reflecting a spacio-cultural distance and the separate experiences of Black and white communities.

CHARLES STUART. Attainted and proscribed by name and grade in his British regiment.

Back in Maisel, I was a biloquist. A common street performer. What you would call a ventriloquist.