The voices in @JasonReynolds83 Long Way Down reach deep in one’s soul and ask what rules one must follow? Whose rules are they? And they beg to question, why is it just as hard to let a tear, one tear, roll off one’s eyes as it’s to break those rules. #longwaydown
“How to slowly kill yourself and others in America”: too country, too blue, too dirty, too brown—so Black, so beautiful. @KieseLaymon Thank you for sharing your memory and imagination. #SouthernLetters
LISTENERS: Mayor Adams urged New Yorkers to reserve judgement about his Blueprint to End Gun Violence until they read the actual plan. So let's read it & talk about it together.
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...long or short, active or passive. The picture tells you how to arrange the words and the arrangement of the words tells you, or tells me, what's going on in the picture. Nota bene: It tells you. You don't tell it.–Joan Didion May she rest in peaceful pictures and words
The arrangement of the words matters, and the arrangement you want can be found in the picture of your mind. The picture dictates the arrangement. The picture dictates whether this will be a sentence with or without clauses, a sentence that ends hard or a dying-fall sentence...
Great loss of the King of Ranchera who sang the heart's affairs for millions the world over yet I'm saddened the @nytimes doesn't have a Latinx voice on staff who can pay tribute to #Chente and his #Gente#MoreLatinosInNews@NAHJ@chrisychung@deanbaquet https://t.co/SvN1PCDpwy
@MellodyHobson delivers poignant perspectives about personal ambition and corporate responsibility and how progressive work and government policies can uplift women, men, and benefit society at large @nytimes@dealbook#MindingTheGap
What a privilege to have reread “Heavy” by @KieseLaymon to have heard, and time really listened, to this intimate and powerful dialogue between he and his Mama, between he and America; to begin to understand where “we bend”
@lourdesgnavarro @NPRKelly@NPR @lourdesgnavarro, amplio exito en el futuro y mucha salud—gracias. For all the stories, for all the laughs, for all the Latino representation and voices, and broader knowledge, you hosted—thank you.