"Mama says I'm homegrown." -- DeAnn Wiley, HOMEGROWN

#CelebratingBlackVoices #DeAnnWiley #Homegrown

"The world gasped at the superpowers driving the rocket, unaware that they came from Yvonne Clarke and her engineering spark!" - YVONNE CLARK AND HER ENGINEERING SPARK, @allenwriteswell.bsky.social and @deandrahodge.bsky.social

#CelebratingBlackVoices

“May the flamboyant Black and queer ancestors of the past be remembered for the light they shone during a time that forced them to live in the dark. Our Black and queer icons of the past should be hidden no more."

— George M. Johnson, Introduction, FLAMBOYANTS

#CelebratingBlackVoices #Flamboyants

"From your blood, I rose. Brick by brick, I was built with tired hands that deserved rest. You. Black. Beautiful. Never broken. I prayed for you to thrive and watched with pride when you did." - Randi Pink, ANGEL OF GREENWOOD

#CelebratingBlackVoices #RandiPink #AngelOfGreenwood

“The Iliad, Paradise Lost, Gilgamesh. Heroes and stories too big for the constraints of convention. Muhammad Ali’s life was just as big.” - MESSENGER: THE LEGEND OF MUHAMMAD ALI, Marc Bernadin & Ron Salas #CelebratingBlackVoices #MarcBernadin #RonSalas #muhammadali

“If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, there’s no progress. If you pull it all the way out, that’s not progress. The progress is healing the wound that the blow made.” — Malcolm X

#CelebratingBlackVoices #IlyasahShabazz
#TiffanyDJackson #MalcolmX

"Black is the heart of a candle and flame.
Black is the power of movement in pain." - Angela Joy, BLACK IS A RAINBOW COLOR. Illustrated by Ekua Holmes

#CelebratingBlackVoices #BlackIsARainbowColor #AngelaJoy #EkuaHolmes

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“If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, there’s no progress. If you pull it all the way out, that’s not progress. The progress is healing the wound that the blow made.” — Malcolm X

#CelebratingBlackVoices #IlyasahShabazz
#TiffanyDJackson #MalcolmX