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I am eternally grateful to Alexander for reminding us to know the Spirit who walks with us.
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Greatest thanks to M. Jacqui Alexander & Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez for gifting us with this conversation. Also, to the Smith College Dept. of Africana Studies for making it possible.
Tears were shed. Let's continue to seed.✨🌻✨
"Just do your art."
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"Your loyalty is not to the discipline of inheritance. Your loyalty is to the question that your soul wants to raise." - M. Jacqui Alexander in conversation with @DrYoFiggy. Their words gave me life today. Such a wonderful gift! 💖🔥 #ConstellationsofRelation
JUST WOW Dr. Alexander @DrYoFiggy what an earth shattering once in a lifetime conversation. I have reams of notes and quotes but want leave with the last thing I heard Dr. Alexander say: JUST DO YOUR ART!!! #ConstellationsofRelation
En serio que estoy llorando.
So thankful to my AADS fam @BlackCatrachoBK & @tracispw for making this happen and of course to @DrYoFiggy & Professor M. Jacqui Alexander for their intergenerational Black Caribbean Feminist brilliance!!!
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"Brace yourself. You have been born. Make yourself again."
Woooo, babyyyy, en lágrimas estoy. Mucho aché.
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"Brace yourself...you have been born...you can make yourself over again."
-M. Jacqui Alexander
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This conversation about our intellectual questions and work being life-long pursuits?! This idea that we should not be married to a single discipline to do said life-long work?!
I knew this already down to my bones, but...HELLO?!?
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"Take what you need and leave the rest."
-M. Jacqui Alexander
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"Your loyalty is not to the discipline of inheritance. Your loyalty is to the question that your soul wants to raise!"
-M. Jacqui Alexander
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"But remember they have given you the foundation to do what they are requiring you to do. Pull on that thread, just keep pulling."
-M. Jacqui Alexander
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"The ancestors choose whoever they want."
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"The aesthetic is part of our soul expression." -- M. Jacqui Alexander @dslprojects #ConstellationsofRelation
"The aesthetic is part of our soul expression. It is who we are."
-M. Jacqui Alexander
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"We don't worship images, we just wanted to know what God looked like-- so we created these images."
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"We do need our memories. We do need the sacred. We do need our community."
-Yomaira C. Figueroa Vásquez
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"The older you grow the more radical you become because you have nothing to lose-- on intergenerational legacies."
-Teona Williams
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"It means you might not lean onto human beings to replenish you-- ancestors presente."
-Sarah Bruno
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"We must know what we are called to do." -- @DrYoFiggy in conversation with M. Jacqui Alexander @dslprojects #ConstellationsofRelation
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