"You Matter."

Social and Political Education through Artistic Knowledge creates public exhibits and demonstrations that advocate for political and social change.

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SPEAK’s 1st ever #WCW is @Malala, who openly criticized the Taliban control of Swat Valley & advocated education for Pakistani women. She was targeted for her bravery, but her courage inspires girls all over the world.
You can read more about her life at https://t.co/fG9zXx8ibw

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North and South Korean leaders met for the second time to discuss carrying out the peace commitments, and Kim Jong Un's potential meeting with President Donald Trump, South Korea says https://t.co/jUhlMiHK8T

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

"If you, as a White person, would like to be treated the way Black people are in this society, stand."

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On this #internationalwomensday, we encourage you to celebrate women of ALL intersections. There’s no one way to live; there’s no one way to love. There’s no one way to BE. We all brings a different kind of beauty to the world, and we appreciate you for yours the most. #SPEAKlove

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“The future happens, no matter how much we scream.”
-Derek Walcott

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“We are the ones we have been waiting for.”
-June Jordan

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“Every pair of eyes facing you has probably experienced something you could not endure.”
-Lucille Clifton

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“You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can’t imagine something that has never existed before, it’s impossible.”
-Rita Dove

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“When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcome. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”
-Audre Lorde

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“In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom except in the field of my writing.”
-Langston Hughes

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“We are each other’s magnitude and bond.”
-Gwendolyn Brooks

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"My first friend was the sea. Now, is my last.
I stop talking now. I work, then I read,
cotching under a lantern hooked to the mast.
I try to forget what happiness was,
and when that don't work, I study the stars."

-Derek Walcott, "After The Storm"

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"Tell me who's angry!

I say the problem with affirmative action
seems to me like way too much affirmative
talk and way too little action!"

-June Jordan, "Jim Crow: The Sequel"

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"these hips are big hips.
they need space to
move around in.
they don't fit into little
petty places. these hips
are free hips.
they don't like to be held back.
these hips have never been enslaved,
they go where they want to go..."

-Lucille Clifton, "Homage to My Hips"

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“I am so perfect so divine so ethereal so surreal
I cannot be comprehended
except by my permission

I mean . . . I . . . can fly
like a bird in the sky . . .”

-Nikki Giovanni

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Follow us for quotes and poems from black figures all throughout #BlackHistoryMonth!

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"I have been woman
for a long time
beware my smile
I am treacherous with old magic
and the noon's new fury
with all your wide futures
promised
I am
woman
and not white."

-Audre Lorde, "A Woman Speaks"

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"I, too, sing America.

I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong."

-Langston Hughes, "I, Too"

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"We were dancing—it must have
been a foxtrot or a waltz,
something romantic but
requiring restraint,
rise and fall, precise
execution as we moved
into the next song without
stopping..."
-Rita Dove, "American Smooth"

[Blk Girl Culture @blkgirlculture]

Sister Rosetta Tharpe AKA "The Godmother of Rock & Roll." Her unique guitar style blended blues and traditional folk arrangements and are regarded as the first clear precursors of rock and roll. #BlackHistoryMonth

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“I am so perfect so divine so ethereal so surreal
I cannot be comprehended
except by my permission

I mean . . . I . . . can fly
like a bird in the sky . . .”

-Nikki Giovanni