Black Paris Profiles™: Cheryl Pegues – Part 2

In Part 1 of Cheryl Pegues’ Black Paris Profile™, I presented Cheryl’s professional life and her love for Paris and the nearby town of Saint Maur des Fossés. Part 2 features her sentiments about the African-American community in Paris, her advice for those seeking to make Paris their home, her practice of Buddhism, and why she considers her life in France to be a success story.

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Cheryl Pegues
© Jean-Pierre Peersman
When I asked Cheryl how important is it to her to be associated with African Americans in Paris, she responded that she can’t put a level of importance on it – “it simply is.” She also had the following to say:

There are some truly fabulous sisters and brothers here in Paris, truly outstanding, and a privilege to know. It takes a while to sift through the fakers and takers and users and parasites and tourists, not to mention the sincerely mistaken and the lost that come to try their luck from America year after year. Americans can be so woefully ignorant about coming over to experience the “dream” that most unwittingly prefer to bring the dream with them, rather than risk an unfamiliar and unromantic version here . . . The people who have been here for a while are very much a part of the place they live in, as much to the benefit of their French hosts as to themselves, and it makes for a nice marriage.

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