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Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
Audre Lorde explores the power of the erotic as a force of empowerment for women, challenging societal suppression and reclaiming the importance of deep, unapologetic feeling in personal and collective liberation.
centraleurasia.orgPapa was to have gone that noon, during his lunch hour, to the office of the Home Owners’ Loan. If he had not succeeded in getting another extension, they would be leaving this house in which they had lived for more than fourteen years. There was little hope. The Home Owners’ Loan was hard. They sat, making their plans. “We’ll be moving into a nice
... See moreMargo Jefferson • Maud Martha
“Do I remain a revolutionary? Intellectually — without a doubt. But am I prepared to give my body to the struggle or even my comforts?... Comfort has come to be its own corruption.” — Lorraine Hansberry, Black playwright and writer
Cultural Worker, Not A “Creative”
than be slaves to market forces (Du Bois 1933b).
Jessica Gordon Nembhard • Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice
Here was the theory of racial equality about to be put into practice, and she only hoped she would be equal to being equal.
Margo Jefferson • Maud Martha
“Dictators and people in office and people
who want to control and deceive know exactly
the people who will disturb their plans…
And those people are artists.”
- Toni Morrison
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“Toni Morrison’s Final... See more
instagram.comLangston Hughes: “Harlem”
poetryfoundation.org
“Their cause must be our cause, too,” Lyndon Johnson said. “Because it is not just Negroes, but really it is all of us, who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice.”