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1 " It's absurd to think about how a $1,600 stipend changed the course of my life. It's absurd to think about how many internships are still unpaid, and how elitist and morally corrupt it is to hire unpaid or underpaid labor. "
― Kimberly Drew , This Is What I Know About Art
2 " Capitalism and white supremacy reinforce the idea that health is a personal responsibility, which means that if you aren’t “healthy” then you’ve done something wrong. "
― Kimberly Drew , Black Futures
3 " Wherever possible, everything in this book was made by Black hands. "
4 " Abled people are always telling me, “In the future we’ll all be sick” or that disability is the most likely result of climate catastrophe. And I’m like, everyone I know is already sick. Most of the people I know are already disabled. Whether through illness, injury, trauma, congenital disabilities—all of those. "
5 " We are often asked why we have to have this and that be “Black.” Many never stop to think about what it is like to look at something and try to find identity in places where it does not exist. When you have privilege, you don’t know you have it, and you cannot conceptualize the results and implications of not having it "
6 " Just stop worrying about your things, for a minute, and worry about where you can go, what you can do to make space for someone else for a minute, if you could "
7 " If you find yourself naked with someone who doesn’t look at you with the love, care, and worship with which you see yourself, reclaim your skin—there are always more lovers in the sea or the app. Someone wants your body whole. Wait for that. "
8 " it has always been and “remains exceedingly attractive and possible in this post-black, post-soul age of black cultural traffic to love black cool and not love black people. "
9 " After all, it’s not addicts that should have ever been the object of our fears, but the forces that create them. "
10 " In the age of digital photography, for instance, Shirley cards are hardly used anymore. But even now, there are reminders that photographic technology is neither value-free nor ethnically neutral "
11 " Names and how they are pronounced, revered, and understood reveal a lot—about classism, stereotypes, and history. As part of Dr. Deborah Roberts’s research for the Pluralism series, she typed the names of more than two hundred and fifty African American women into her computer. As she typed, red lines appeared under nearly every name to indicate that the names were spelled incorrectly. For each name, there was a correct and an incorrect way that they should be rendered. “These names are African American names,” Roberts notes. “These are names born from an American history. How can they be wrong? "
12 " And are we really still prioritizing the “creative freedom” of White artists over the sensitive and painful histories and realities of people of color. "
