Nikki Giovanni, “When I Die”
“and if ever i touched a life i hope that life knows / that I know that touching was and still is and will always / be the true / revolution” –Nikki Giovanni, “When I Die”
“and if ever i touched a life i hope that life knows / that I know that touching was and still is and will always / be the true / revolution” –Nikki Giovanni, “When I Die”
“Creativity is not a solitary movement. That is its power. Whatever is touched by it, whoever hears it, sees it, senses it, knows it, is fed. That is why beholding someone else’s creative word, image, idea, fills us up, inspires us to our own creative work. A single creative act …
“Art is not just for oneself, not just a marker of one’s own understanding. It is also a map for those who follow after us.” –Women Who Run With the Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estés
“And another thing about equality is that it cannot coexist with rape. It cannot. And it cannot coexist with pornography or with prostitution or with the economic degradation of women on any level, in any way. It cannot coexist, because implicit in all those things is the inferiority of women.” …