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Quote by Vanessa Bell Calloway

“My motto is: look your best, feel your best, but most of all, be your best at any age.”

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Vanessa Bell Calloway is an American film actress, born on March 20, 1957. She is known for her roles in films and television, particularly in comedies and dramas from the 1980s and 1990s. Calloway is praised for her unique sense of humor and acting skills, which have made her a popular comedic actress in her prime. more

“I think a lot of times when people hear the word dance, they think 'oh, that's something that I can't do.' But dance really lives in our bodies and the thing that I've come to learn, embrace and lift up is that we have history in our bodies that's living and breathing. We have our own individual history but we also have our heritage. Each one of us has our movement language and it's about tapping into that and pulling that out. That's the thing that I try to encourage everybody because it's not about dance, it's about the movement and the gesture and how we honor it.”

People Thinking Trying Individual Language Honor Embrace

Author:Camille A. Brown

“I think it's important for people to understand that dance, movement, choreography is about an experience and entertainment but it's also about perception and a lens. So when we're talking about a Black female's experience through a Black female's lens, that's going to be totally different from a Black female's perspective through a Black male's lens.”

People Thinking Important Different Black Perspective Perception Choreography

Author:Camille A. Brown

“The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.”

Way Friendship Truth Is Caught Karma Thrive Being Lonely Snares

Book:THE LAST YEARS

Source: THE LAST YEARS

“I think cultural appropriation has been an issue since the beginning of time and I think it's so important for us to tell our own stories and tell them the way we know how they're supposed to be told but also giving each other the exposure and access in order to do that.”

Thinking Giving Important