“Syms is an artist, a filmmaker, a poet, a technologist, a theorist, a trickster, a chaos connoisseur—and the list goes on. But most notably, she is someone who is deeply intuitive.”
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In her 50s, June Jordan said, “I’m more careful about my health, but I’m also more careful about my happiness.”
“Compared with 20 years ago, I am twice as strong...I meditate twice a day. I teach full-time. I write full-time. I read like a maniac. And I fall in love easily.”
James Baldwin said it’s difficult “to keep your mind and your eye on what you know to be complex, which everyone else wishes to make simple, to remain fixed on what you know to be the truth beneath it...It is a matter of stamina, and one’s got to pray that I have enough stamina.”