February 2012
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“I was copying what other people did and wasn’t really focusing on my own...”
– Kimberly Dillon, House of Mikko CEO/Founder Interviewed in Zora
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“When I found I had crossed that line, I looked at my hands to see if I was the...”
– Harriet Tubman
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“For a long time I was this “yes” saying fairy, sprinkling my friends, family,...”
– Surviving College: The Art of Saying No
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blackndns:
MacArthur ‘Genius’ Tiya Miles does...
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“What keeps me in the business is not always the love of my work. I’m just...”
– Viola Davis speaking about her experience as a black woman in Hollywood
January 2012
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“I was a young woman with an evolved mind who was not afraid of her beauty or her...”
– Lauryn Hill (via soaringaboveitall)
Lovely words from Lauryn.
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“This sense of myself came from my mother, who instilled in us very strong values...”
– Brown University President Ruth Simmons, Leadership Lessons
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“Without fail, each woman had (or was forced) to decide what came next. The only...”
– Author Jacqueline Luckett, writer of upcoming novel Passing Love interviewed by author Carleen Brice
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“It is as if we were supine or sleeping or lying down. That is the way I felt...”
– Margaret Walker in Black World Magazine (1975), comparing black people in the thirties to the sixties when she believes consciousness grew. Wonder what she would say about us today?
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Watch“We get information about stereotypes from the visual. And so artists feel that they are combatting a visual stereotype with a visual truth or a visual antidote to the stereotype.”
Lisa Farrington & African American Women’s Art
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“I’m special because I’m generally placed in...
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“Black women have been taught to view each other as always suspect, heartless...”
– Audre Lorde (via heathershotyou
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This dehumanizing denial of self is no less lethal than the dehumanization of racism to which it is so closely allied.”
When Havoc said he was out for delphia selfia….this is not what he had in mind….or maybe it was. o.0 #oldLadyrap.
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Girl
Wash the white clothes on Monday and put them on the stone heap; wash the color clothes on Tuesday and put them on the clothesline to dry; don’t walk barehead in the hot sun; cook pumpkin fritters1 in very hot sweet oil; soak your little cloths right after you take them off; when buying cotton to make yourself a nice blouse, be sure that it doesn’t have gum2 on it, because that way it won’t hold...
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“King was not insisting that Americans deny that race exists at all, particularly...”
– @profblmKelley - Professor Blair L.M. Kelley, King Caled for Much More Than Being Color Blind
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“Although our nation has made substantial progress in many aspects of race...”
– Address by Coretta Scott King at Antioch College in 2006. Important lessons to keep in mind this election year and always as we celebrate Martin Luther King Day.
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“African American women’s internal life experiences are part of the American...”
– Melissa Harris-Perry (via sociolab) This. Whenever (white) people preach about “the good ol’ days,” I want to punch them in the throat. (via ethiopienne)
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tobia:
Nina Simone Sinnerman 1965
So I run to...
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“Don’t knock at the door, little child,
I cannot let you in,
You know not...”
– Black Woman by Georgia Douglas Johnson
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“Indeed, my time in Ghana was liberating. I was working as a contributing writer...”
– The cat call (as understood by a twenty something year old Denise Huxtable wannabe)
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The Race Card Project by Michele Norris →
“Despite all the talk about America’s consternation or cowardice when it comes to talking about race, I seemed to have found auditorium after auditorium full of people who were more than willing to unburden themselves on this prickly topic.”
Michele Norris, radio journalist, NPR host and author of The Grace of Silence
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WatchTo see this weekend. From the Sundance Award winning film Pariah by Writer/Director Dee Rees, in select theaters.
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“I would be lost without the feeling of antagonism that people have towards me. I...”
– Jamaica Kincaid
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“more young female artists are starting to take control of their careers. I see...”
– Chandra Russell of 1990Lex, a production company working on “Downtown Girls,” a web series about women of color coming of age in New York City. Read the entire interview with the team on Zora
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Ten Rules for Writing Fiction by Zadie Smith
1 When still a child, make sure you read a lot of books. Spend more time doing this than anything else.
2 When an adult, try to read your own work as a stranger would read it, or even better, as an enemy would.
3 Don’t romanticise your “vocation”. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no “writer’s lifestyle”. All that matters is what...
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“You can’t just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream....”
– Diana Ross (via monamade)
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December 2011
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“When we see love as the will to nurture one’s own or another’s spiritual growth,...”
– bell hooks
Toni Morrison writes that the idea of romantic love and physical beauty are “probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought.”
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“Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to...”
– Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye