...Manifestations...

dreamhampton1:

Below are some of my favorite quotes from the various essays in the book.

by gradientlair:

“My audacity is my fight, to be bigger than my fear. I’ve never been able to summon fearlessness by anger, even when its been a reaction to deep injustice, social or personal; instead its functioned in my life as a kind of a walking meditation, one that has driven me around the world and back.” - dream hampton

“If you mistake the traits of poverty for your personal identity, you risk being locked into a position where you’re unable to advance without betraying yourself.” - Mat Johnson

“We do not require outside help to validate or promote the existence of Black cool, not are we about to sit back and watch our cool be traded and consumed by those who have not worn the heavy cloak of the battered and beautiful Black burden.”  - Michaela Angela Davis

“I am not responsible for ‘others’ ignorance or denial about race or white privilege. I no longer carry the burden of navigating other people’s feelings. I will not be quiet for anyone else’s comfort.”   - Michaela Angela Davis

I loved this quote because I often gush about Blues music. I think it was a tiny space in time where full Black male emotionality was accepted and seen as strength, not weakness. The music is so rich for this reason.

“Black males have helped create the blues, more than any other music, as a music of resistance to the patriarchal notion that a real man should never express genuine feelings. Emotional awareness of real-life pain in Black men’s lives was and is the soul of the blues.” - bell hooks

This quote is just literary gorgeousness. I can’t lie.

“I am a diaspora chick, so my Blackness spans galaxies known and unknown, Octavia Butler style, Toni Morrison flavored. It’s a beloved kindred thing that has so many more than nine lives, but no shelf life.” - Esther Armah

And obviously, becuase I am a photographer and a Black woman, I feel a pull toward this man’s words.

“The camera became my own way of exercising my subjectivity in the world through persistent visual authorship.” - Dawoud Bey

Read this book!

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atisho0:

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dreamhampton1:

I Think Aloud about Whitney and World Records and Addiction and Fame

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bergdorfgoodman:

What’s not to love? 

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flavorpill:

Feb 11: Break up and hook up in Brooklyn as ADVENTURE[s] + Nerve Dating  present the Broken Hearted Ball at Matchless. Break up songs…then hook up songs. Send them your requests/shout-outs-kiss offs. You know you want to. 

GREAT CONCEPT!!!