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“Being in a state of mystery seems to be my calling.”

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Luci Shaw is an American poet born in 1928. Her poetry is known for its profound emotion and rich imagination, which has won her a wide audience. more

“As a Black woman filmmaker I feel that’s my job: visibility. And my preference within that job is Black subjectivity. Meaning I’m interested in the lives of Black folk as the subject. Not the predicate, not the tangent.[These stories] deserve to be told. Not as sociology, not as spectacle, not as a singular event that happens every so often, but regularly and purposefully as truth and as art on an ongoing basis, as do the stories of all the women you love.”

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Author:Ava DuVernay

“Black people loving and losing is something we don’t see enough of. We’re always in these heightened situations like something big is happening, something funny or something violent. And you know what? Sometimes we die of breast cancer or a broken heart. Things happen that are just not being explored cinematically. It’s time we reinvigorated that type of film.”

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Author:Ava DuVernay

“At the end of the day, I had to remain dedicated to historical accuracy.”

Ends Historical The End Of The Day Dedicated Accuracy Historical Accuracy

Author:Ava DuVernay

“Americans continue to visit Paris not just for Paris, but for ‘Paris.’ As if out of some collective nostalgia for what Paris should be, more than what it is. For someone else’s memories.”

Ifs Should Memories Nostalgia Paris Collectives

Author:Rosecrans Baldwin

“Let the separation between you and the world be final and irreversible. Say, 'Here I go for Christ and His Cross, for the faith of the Bible, for the laws of God, for holiness, for trust in Jesus; and never will I go back, come what may.”

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Author:Charles Spurgeon

“They say that gardens look better when they are created by loving gardeners rather than by landscapers, because the garden is more tended to and cared for. The same thing goes for cooking. I only cook for people I love.”

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Author:Ina Garten

“Fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification.”

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Book:When I Was A Child I Read Books

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“It is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without, at the same time, condemning the contingent, intolerable conditions that exist in our society. These conditions are the things that cause individuals to feel that they have no other alternative than to engage in violent rebellions to get attention. And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard.”

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Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

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