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StandingAtTheFence
30’s, filmmaker Don’t devalue one’s creative work without credit and proper care. Allow the archives to be a continuous reminder of the originality that persisted in times of turbulence.
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June Jordan, “Free Flight.” Haruko/Love Poems
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An absolutely devastating loss. One of my favorite actresses. Her work in Bushmama and Daughters were reasons I went to Howard
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Abbas Kiarostami:
Where Is My Friend’s House? (خانهی دوست کجاست؟), 1987
Life, and Nothing More… (زندگی و دیگر هیچ), 1992
Through the Olive Trees (زیر درختان زیتون), 1994
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Around Jerusalem thousands of acres of pine forests were planted by the Jewish National Fund, forests which are both intended to camouflage destroyed Palestinian villages and fashion a new pastoral 'biblical landscape', create a new collective memory and give the impression of an 'authentic' timeless biblical landscape in which trees have been standing forever. But this 'natural landscape' is a carefully constructed scene to camouflage the systematically expropriated land of Palestinian villages, the destruction of olive groves and the ethnic cleansing of the Nakba.
Nur Masalha, Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History (p. 376)
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125th Street (Red Heart) New York, Photo by Todd Webb. 1946.
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Victoria Chang, from Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief; “Dear Teacher,”
[Text ID: “The language of poetry reminded me to stay alive. It reminded me that, when it felt like I had nothing, I was nothing, I still had words. I could ride language as if on a horseback, and it could take me anywhere, including deeply into myself.”]
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Aimé Césaire, (1939), The Original 1939 Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, Edited by A. James Arnold and Clayton Eshleman, Original art by Wifredo Lam, «Wesleyan Poetry», Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT, 2013, Bilingual Edition
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Sites that have been host to extraordinary suffering will eventually be either burned to the ground or turned into temples.
Stella Maris, Cormac McCarthy
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“Surely spring has been returned to me, this time
not as a lover but a messenger of death, yet
it is still spring, it is still meant tenderly.”
-Louise Glück, excerpt from “Vita Nova”
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| "Faith Ringgold Flying her own Flag" in Ms. Magazine, July 1976 by Lucy R. Lippard
#Faith Ringgold#black artists#black women artists#black art#article#interview#art#1970s#Ms. magazine#Lucy R. Lippard
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Faith Ringgold | (October 8th, 1930 - April 13th, 2024)
Circa 1987, Photographer Unknown
Source: Smithsonian Institution
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Faith Ringgold
Dancing on the George Washington Bridge
1988
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“I love my mystery, I love the abstract world I live in, the delicate, profound, vague, obscure, voluptuously, wordless sensations I experience.”
— Anais Nin (via velvetsoull)
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Audre Lorde, Apartheid U.S.A., in I Am Your Sister. Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde, Edited by Rudolph P. Byrd, Johnnetta Betsch Cole, and Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009, pp. 64-72 [American Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT]
Plus: Audre Lorde, Apartheid U.S.A. / Merle Woo, Our Common Enemy, Our Common Cause, Freedom Orgainizing in the Eighties, «Freedom Organizing» 2, Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, New York, NY, 1986
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The night-soil men can see a bird walking in trees. It isn't a bird. It is a woman who has removed her skin and is on her way to drink the blood of her secret enemies. It is a woman who has left her skin in a corner of a house made out of wood. It is a woman who is reasonable and admires honeybees in the hibiscus.
Jamaica Kincaid, from At the Bottom of the River
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Haïti, Cap-Haïtien, 2003 - Jean Claude Coutausse
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