10 July, 2021

Radha Blank, Netflix: The Forty-Year-Old Version
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Naomi Klein: No Is Not Enough
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“If now isn’t a good time for the truth, I don’t see when we’ll get to it.”

–Nikki Giovanni

Quote of the Week

26 June, 2021

Barry Jenkins, Amazon Studios: The Underground Railroad
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Paula Vogel: The Mammary Plays
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“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness.”

–Mark Twain

Quote of the Week

12 June, 2021

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“Prejudices are the props of civilization.”

–André Gide

Quote of the Week

29 May, 2021

DMX: The Great Depression
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August Wilson: Joe Turner's Come and Gone
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“I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.”

–President Abraham Lincoln

Quote of the Week

15 May, 2021

Drake: Scorpion
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Phoebe Waller-Bridge: Fleabag
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“Racism is not getting worse, it’s getting filmed.”

–Will Smith

Quote of the Week

1 May, 2021

Jemaine Clement, FXP: What We Do in the Shadows
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Ruben Gallo, Lorna Scott Fox: The Mexico City Reader
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“Make The Money. Don’t Let The Money Make You.”

–Lisa Raye

Quote of the Week

17 April, 2021

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“Tell all the truth but tell it slant.”

–Emily Dickinson

Quote of the Week

20 March, 2021

Chinonye Chukwu: Clemency
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Peter Weiss: The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat As Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of The Marquis de Sade
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“Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience, you must find yourself at war with your society.” 

 

–James Baldwin

Quote of the Week

6 March, 2021

Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta, HBO: The Leftovers

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Twyla Tharp: The Creative Habit

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“A liberal: someone who thinks he knows more about your experience than you do.”

–James Baldwin

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