Melanin Munroe

[Carina del Valle Schorske @FluentMundo]

Rest in eternal grace Judith Jamison 🕊️

[hawa☁️🫧 @diorbabe66]

i'm just gonna leave this here

[Melanin Munroe @courtyp25]

One thing about me, every time you see me ima leave you with an “I love you” every time

[Jerome Trammel, MBA @MrJeromeTrammel]

And that’s why there’s a difference between Black people and people of color..

[Melanin Munroe @courtyp25]

They, verbatim,” feel the system has failed them. And I could not tell them otherwise. But praise God for me being an artist, who has decided to do my work in spite of and beyond the systems.

[Melanin Munroe @courtyp25]

My first period, I gave my 7th and 8th graders the opportunity to free share about what they were feeling. Then I shared the Toni Morrison quote about this being no time for despair, and asked them what type of art they would like to create to help us feel healed and free.

[Melanin Munroe @courtyp25]

A few of them came up to me and thanked me while giving me the biggest hugs. I quietly burst into tears.

[Melanin Munroe @courtyp25]

Where can I get Q U A L I T Y produce in New Orleans?

[JACQ FRANÇOI$. @jacqpfrancois]

Black people should focus on Black people from here on out. We’re literally all we have.

[Caroline Renard @carolinerenard_]

Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler.

[JACQ FRANÇOI$. @jacqpfrancois]

this is how a revolution starts.

[DB @Hi_ImBria]

Please, I beg, don’t EVER group us together as “POC” anymore.

[Black Therapist 💕 @NicoleLewisLCSW]

Warm lines that DON’T call the police.

[Melanin Munroe @courtyp25]

Teacher friends. Let’s not create or participate on a culture where we talk negatively about our students. They might challenging, and requiring a lot, but to say “they dot how to act, they too wild and can’t do abc…” we’re literally here to T E A C H them.

[Melanin Munroe @courtyp25]

If you not actively trying to learn, I’m not taking yo class.

[Melanin Munroe @courtyp25]

You are what you create. What you consume. What you allow. What you accept. What you give attention to.

[Melanin Munroe @courtyp25]

The fact that, based on my career path/successes, so many people in New Orleans assume I’m White is very telling and disheartening. But I’m here to change that thinking.

[Melanin Munroe @courtyp25]

Leaving one job to go quit another

[Melanin Munroe @courtyp25]

The driving perpendicular on the highway, in order to get over into a lane that’s moving maybe half an inch ahead of yours, is RIDICULOUS, and making traffic worse.

[Melanin Munroe @courtyp25]

Where, other than my kitchen, can I get a good Kale Caesar salad in New Orleans? Asking for a friend named Co