29 July, 2018

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Diana Ross: Diamond Diana Barbara Ehrenreich: Bright-sided, How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America

“I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.”
–Frida Kahlo

Selma Writing

Spending the week locked away in Selma writing a new TV show where two young black men discover a body that leads them down a rabbit hole of history through Jim Crow, lynching and slavery til they end with a present day truth that makes them advocates for reparations.

Soaking in the town, the history, and mostly reconnecting back to an important time of my life when I lived in Alabama for 7 years.  #Blessed.

15 July, 2018

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Drake: If You're Reading This It's Too Late Jane Mayer: Dark Money, The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
–Pablo Picasso

7 July, 2018

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Sonder: Into Octavia E. Butler: Kindred

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
–Thomas Merton

1 July, 2018

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6lack: FREE 6LACK Boris Bittker: The Case for Black Reparations

“Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.”
–Edgar Degas

23 June, 2018

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Miles Davis & John Coltrane: The Final Tour Zinzi Clemmons: What We Lose

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”
–Pablo Picasso