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lucille clifton interview from Mosaic #17 2007

I'm going to start adding thought to my posts as this blog currently has no voice.

Lucille Clifton is my favorite poet. Her voice was so clear and her talents obvious. She earned her accolades and respect. And this insight shared freely through Mosaic magazine is a valuable resource in order to truly understand much of her work. Her biography Lucille Clifton : Her Life And Letters is another great place to get to know her, her gifts, her life.

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lucille clifton interview from Mosaic #17 2007

I'm going to start adding thought to my posts as this blog currently has no voice.

Lucille Clifton is my favorite poet. Her voice was so clear and her talents obvious. She earned her accolades and respect. And this insight shared freely through Mosaic magazine is a valuable resource in order to truly understand much of her work. Her biography Lucille Clifton : Her Life And Letters is another great place to get to know her, her gifts, her life.

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so many fuckless days and nights only the solitary fox watching my window light barks her compassion. i move away from her eyes. from the pitying brush of her tail to a new place and check for signs. so far i am the only animal. i will keep the door unlocked until something human comes.

Leaving Fox by Lucille Clifton

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call it our craziness even, call it anything. it is the life thing in us that will not let us die. even in death’s hand we fold the fingers up and call them greens and grow on them, we hum them and make music. call it our wildness then, we are lost from the field of flowers, we become a field of flowers. call it our craziness our wildness call it our roots, it is the light in us it is the light of us it is the light, call it whatever you have to, call it anything.

roots by Lucille Clifton

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won’t you celebrate with me

won't you celebrate with me what i have shaped into a kind of life? i had no model. born in babylon both nonwhite and woman what did i see to be except myself? i made it up here on this bridge between starshine and clay, my one hand holding tight my other hand; come celebrate with me that everyday something has tried to kill me and has failed.

Lucille Clifton, “won't you celebrate with me” from Book of Light.

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Frida Kahlo - The Wink, Self-Portrait. 

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Mark Rothko, The Dark Paintings of 1969-1970, 

Part One

The Black on Gray paintings were Rothko’s final series. Like the Brown and Gray works on paper, color has been extracted to a dark upper and a lighter lower section. Most striking is the painted white edge within which the composition is circumscribed. In all of Rothko’s earlier work the edges of his paintings folding around the stretcher had been meticulously painted. In marked contrast, the white surround of the Black on Gray paintings sharply demarcates the painted surface and collapses the pictorial space into a much flatter picture plane.

Previously, Rothko had used a mixture of rabbitskin glue and pigment to douse his canvases in a first layer of colour. The Black on Gray paintings, however, were primed with white gesso which shows through in various areas, further contravening any illusion of pictorial depth. Unlike the Brown and Grays, where the variations occur within a fixed format, the Black on Gray paintings substantially vary in size and orientation, each offering a completely unique exploration of scale and ‘weight’.

The Black on Gray paintings bear witness to the tireless effort with which Rothko kept pushing the boundaries of his practice; which may also explain why one evening in late 1969 he opened his studio to select members of the New York art world to view his latest paintings, the first and only time he presented a series as such.

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Allan Salas

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Juneteenth Emancipation Day celebration at Eastwoods Park on June 19, 1900 in Austin, Texas.

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sorry to say this but not every act of protest is meant to be palatable. actually scratch that, to protest is to disrupt, it's to inconvenience, it's to make you unable to ignore the protesters message, it's priority should never be its palability.

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kelela for true laurel magazine lensed by myles loftin

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This Kelela interview was so eye opening and insightful. A great read thanks to Lawrence Burney. Will be checking out their other pieces.

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i want to be a garden full of flowers bursting open toward life, all of them singing, i’m here. i mean something. i want to live.

Kai Cheng Thom, "to the ones who didn't cry" from Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

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Tired of talking to Zionists I’m just going to start telling them I wish on them whatever they wish on Palestinians

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[Image description: a tweet by Twitter user “Kai Heron” (@KaiHeron) that says: "Strengthen Indigenous land rights because they're good stewards of nature" has become a refrain among Western environmentalists. Land Back is vital for Indigenous self-determination and liberation, not because Indigenous peoples do the West a service by conserving nature. /end ID]

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My new favorite genre of picture is a very special thing that most animals (and humans!) do: face nuzzling as an act of greeting/comfort/intimacy. thank God that this is happening all over the world right now

Isn’t it wonderful?!

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i love carrying groceries in a paper bag in my arms exactly how i imagined adulthood as a young girl