"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."--Maya Angelou
#mayaangelou
"I always wanted to leave home. I never knew they were going to stop me from coming back. Maybe, if I knew, I never would have left. It is kind of painful to be away from everything that you've ever known. Nobody will know the pain of exile until you are in exile."--Miriam Makeba
#miriammakeba
"You don't have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back."--James Baldwin
#JamesBaldwin
#FriendshipFridays. Maya Angelou and Miriam Makeba. #mayaangelou #miriammakeba
#friendshipfridays Nina Simone and Miriam Makeba
"Eventually it comes to you: the thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely."--Lorraine Hansberry
Performance is a political act. Malcolm and Maya. Abbey and Max.
Art D’Lugoff wanted a room where the walls didn't care what color you were, only what you had to say.
Remembering the 1970s cool of Miriam Makeba and Stokely Carmichael.
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Please join me for a conversation about Freedom's Gate, which will be published in Oct. I can't wait to share the book with you. Link in comments
