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“We Can Grow A Better World” backpatch, linocut on canvas, 13” x 9.5”, December 2022.

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Grasshopper and Beetles. 1951. Leonard Baskin. Linocut. Plate 23 from A Little Book of Natural History. [source]

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Lucienne Bloch, Frida Winking, New Workers School, NY

1933

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Bluebonnets, Late Afternoon, Robert Julian Onderdonk

https://www.wikiart.org/en/robert-julian-onderdonk/bluebonnets-late-afternoon

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“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hate so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”

— James Baldwin

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“An intellectual friendship can take many forms. It can consist of long conversations into the night about books, arguments, and art. Intellectual partners read together and write together. They also, and this is really my point, can swim in each other’s imaginations. Neither one imitating the other, but bathing in the other’s words they return back to the shore, to the work, shaped by the beloved’s waters.”

— Imani Perry on James Baldwin and Lorraine Hansberry’s friendship in Looking for Lorraine

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“Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”

— James Baldwin (b. 2 August 1924)

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Whatever you describe to another person is also a revelation of who you are and who you think you are. You cannot describe anything without betraying your point of view, your aspirations, your fears, your hopes. Everything.

James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son

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“James Baldwin writes about suffering in the healing process, stating: “I do not mean to be sentimental about suffering—but people who cannot suffer can never grow up, can never discover who they are.” Growing up is, at heart, the process of learning to take responsibility for whatever happens in your life. To choose growth is to embrace a love that heals.”

— Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions

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James Baldwin in Istanbul (1966)

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James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni on Soul! London, November 1971

“I can’t be a pessimist because I am alive. To be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life is an academic matter. So, I am forced to be an optimist. I am forced to believe that we can survive, whatever we must survive.”

~ James Baldwin