“A brave and startling truth”, Maya Angelou’s full poem

Isamu Noguchi, Moerenuma Park in Hokkaido

I love silence, stillness, calmness…

Ivan Meštrović, Amor and Psyche 1918

“If you ain’t got no sauce, then you’re lost. But you can also get lost in the sauce.”

“Figure 8.1. Examples of decorated African and African American manufactured pots. A. Yoruba (Fatunsin 1992); B. BaKongo funerary pot (after Thompson 1981:82); C-E. Ashanti (after DeCorse 2001:121); F-G. Carolina colonowares (after Ferguson 1992:11,31); H-I. Montserrat earthenwares (after Petersen et al. 1999: 167):J-K. monkey jar and coal pot from Barbados (after Loftfield 2001:227).”

From: “Sampling many pots: An archaeology of memory and tradition at a Bahamian plantation” by Wilkie, Laurie A.; 2005.

"To everything I've lost: thank you for setting me free." - Unknown

Buccellati gold seashell compact 

Circa 1960 

Christie’s

Toni Morrison, Tar Baby

Been thinking of this one.

Fine art photographer Julia SH

Ghanaian artist Betty Acquah captures dancing and moving figures in her series of colorful paintings. 

“Maxwell Taylor as a young man in the late ’50s decorating a religious piece for Chelsea Pottery”

(photo courtesy of Maxwell and Therese Taylor)

An arabic calligraphic script saying:"baki" "-God is- infinite"

by: Yılmaz Turan