Archive for the ‘Words of Wisdom’ Category

• Thomas Moore “soulful”

  Date: 2018.07.03 | Category: Words of Wisdom | Response: 0

  “A soulful personality is complicated, multifaceted, and shaped by both pain and pleasure, success and failure.  Life lived soulfully is not without its moments of darkness and periods of foolishness.” —Thomas Moore

• Michael Kleber-Diggs, How Dare We! Write a multicultural creative writing discourse

  Date: 2018.07.03 | Category: Words of Wisdom | Response: 0

  “In spite of countless examples to the contrary—Baldwin, Hughes,

  Ellison, Morrison, Walker, Angelou, James (and who could hope to fill

  such lofty shoes?)—I didn’t think my voice would be valued in the

  world. In many ways I still don’t. To the extent that I go forward

  anyway, I do so as a result of that helplessness I described earlier. It’s

  not that I feel the world hungers for my stories. It’s not that I think

  most of what I want to write about is as valued in mainstream

  publishing as other stories are. It’s more that I’m resolved to sing my

  songs anyway, and I’m content to sing them to those in the world who

  want to hear them.”

  — Michael Kleber-Diggs, How Dare We! Write a multicultural creative writing discourse

• Anaïs Deal-Márquez, How Dare We! Write a multicultural creative writing discourse

  Date: 2018.07.03 | Category: Words of Wisdom | Response: 0

  “In my case, I’m unapologetic about playing with language, disrupting whiteness and the privilege it brings with it. My writing is not about making others feel comfortable. I write because our stories and our bodies have been made to be silent for too long, yet we’re still here.”

  — Anaïs Deal-Márquez, How Dare We! Write a multicultural creative writing discourse

• Marcie Rendon, How Dare We! Write a multicultural creative writing discourse

  Date: 2018.07.03 | Category: Words of Wisdom | Response: 0

  “There is nothing more life-affirming, writer-validating than having

  your audience, your people, the ones who look like you, the ones who

  have lived a similar experience, crack up laughing, wipe a tear from

  their eye, or elbow the person next to them in a “hey, that’s us” kind

  of way.”

  —Marcie Rendon, How Dare We! Write a multicultural creative writing discourse