This evening, Rep. Al Green of Texas was forcibly removed from the joint session of Congress by the sergeant-at-arms for standing up and yelling “You have no mandate to cut Medicaid.” during the president’s address.
“He is a person who has consistently used incivility against civility,” Green said.
“I’m willing to suffer whatever punishment is available to me,” he continued. “I didn’t say to anyone, ‘Don’t punish me.’ I’ve said I’ll accept the punishment, but it’s worth it to let people know that there are some of us who are going to stand up against this president’s desire to cut Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security.”
“This is about the people who are being punished by virtue of losing their health care,” he added. “This is the richest country in the world, and we have people who don’t have good health care.” (Per HuffPost)
«Left to right: Dolly McPherson, Maya Angelou, and Beverly Guy-Sheftall, with a quilt made in Liberia. (Forsyth County, North Carolina, November 1992)» ― p. 140
«Frederick Douglass Quilt, 1953, 120" x 96". Designed by Ben Irvin. Made by the Negro History Club of Marin City and Sausalito, California. (Gift of the Howard Thurman Educational Trust to the permanent collection of the Roberi W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, Atlanta, Georgia. Photograph coourtesy of the Robert W. Woodruff Library, color print)» / «Harriet Tubman Quilt, 1951, 120" x 96". Designed by Ben Irvin. Made by the Negro History Club of Marin City and Sausalito, California. (Gift of the Howard Thurman Educational Trust to the permanent collection of the Roberi W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, Atlanta, Georgia. Photograph coourtesy of the Robert W. Woodruff Library, color print) ― p. 145
«Alice Walker, writer and quilter. San Francisoc, California, December 1992» ― p. 151
«Faith Ringgold in her studio. New York, New York, December 1992» ― p. 172
«Sonia Sanchez, writer and quilt preserver. Delaware County, Pennsylvania, December 1992» ― p. 173
«Yolanda W. Giovanni and her daughter Nikki Giovanni discussing family heidoom quilts. Montgomery County, Virginia, June 1994» ― p. 302
Cover and Book Design: Gore Studios
Photography: Roland L. Freeman
Typography: E. T. Lowe Publishing Co.
"You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."
- Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit, 1922
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