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Dripping Ink: Light Like a Feather, Heavy as
Lead Dedication
Authors in Dripping Ink Exhibit Include: The stars look so huge and so close �.At times I feel like
I can just reach out and pull a star down from the sky as though
it is a breadfruit or a calabash or something that could be of
use to us on this journey. From Krik Krak, by
Edwidge Danticat My writing reflects my own growth and expansion, and at
the same time the society in which I have existed throughout
this confrontation. Whether it is politics, music, literature,
or the origins of language, there is always a historical and
time/place/condition reference that will always try to explain
why I was saying both how and for what.
Amiri Baraka As all advocates of feminist politics know most people do
not understand sexism or if they do they think it is not a
problem. Masses of people think that feminism is always and only
about women seeking to be equal to men. And a huge majority of
these folks think feminism is anti-male. Their misunderstanding
of feminist politics reflects the reality that most folks learn
about feminism from patriarchal mass media.
bell hooks As she watched him pick up the mango, she marveled, anew
at his face. Like reggae, it was a New World hybrid, a genetic
m�lange of bloods that carried in their DNA memories of the
tribes that fought and f***** on the shores of the Americas �
Chinese and Arab, English and Scottish from his father's side;
Dutch and Portuguese Sephardic Jew from his mother�s. But the
final combination � brown like sun-fired clay; cheeks high and
spread apart; nose narrow with a rounded tip; lips wide and
fluted � was a vibrant African presence, Yoruba and Akan. From,
Waiting In Vain by
Colin Channer Leaving jobs and engaging in other activities to protest
what I felt was wrong did not destroy my career. To the
contrary, those actions, while not always easy to take, enriched
my life and provided me with the perhaps unrealistic but no less
satisfying sense that I was doing God's work. From, Ethical
Ambition by
Derrick Bell �...I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated
Sunday school lessons�. I began to suspect at this early age
that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long
search for the true history of African people the world over
began."
Dr. John Henrik Clark blackwoman will define herself. Naturally. Will
talk/walk/live/& love her images. Her beauty will be. the only
way to be is to be. blackman take her. U don�t need music to
move; r/movement toward her is music. & she�ll do more than
dance.
Haki Madhubuti Antigua is a small place, a small island�. It was settled
by Christopher Columbus in 1943. Not too long after, it was
settled by human rubbish from Europe, who used enslave by noble
and exalted human beings from Africa�to satisfy their desire for
wealth and power, to feel better about their own miserable
existence, so that they could be less lonely and empty - a
European disease. From, A Small Place,
Jamaica Kincaid There It Is And if we don�t fight �I shut my eyes and tensed my muscles against an urge to
vomit. I had seen people beaten on television and in the movies.
I had seen the too-red blood substitute streaked across their
backs and heard their well-rehearsed screams. But I hadn�t lain
nearby and smelled their sweat or heard them pleading and
praying, shamed before their families and themselves.� From,
Kindred by
Octavia Butler Lady in Orange: This is the time for the creative ...and others
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