Lilla watson biography

I was born in spring in 1940, given my mother’s name ‘Lilla’. My grandmother died before we met, but I know her through my mother. As a small child I grew up secure in my family.

I knew my father, I knew my mother, I knew my sisters and brothers.

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Your liberation is bound up with mine meaning

It wasn’t until I began school that I was brought to a rude awakening. There was a black world and a white world. In the black world I was safe;  in the white world I was unsafe.

It was obvious to me from my first school days that white people were unpredictable.

This understanding of unpredictability came when my big sister took me to school for the first time and introduced me to her girlfriend’s little sister (who was starting school that day too). I thought I had made a friend for life.

However that was not to be. Most white kids I met at school did not or would not play with me.

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Sometimes (rarely) they did. This is where the unpredictability came in. I was never sure when o