Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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I always say that my artist statement is to not be afraid to talk about the messiness - the unpleasant feelings and happenings around my life. I also try to convey what it feels like and sounds like and smells like and looks like inside of my particular skin, to move through the world as a black American woman in her mid-twenties. Language from songs and TV shows feel integral because it helps to create the environment and describe the full picture.

Morgan Parker's Popular Quotes

After a while, being so honest and so vulnerable on the page ends up affecting my own kind of self possession in the world, because I am not afraid o…

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There's so much about the strong black woman stereotype that makes us forget that we do need and deserve help and care.

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We can look at history and see that [political turmoil is] fertile ground for art.

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I think that we need to make it our goal to define freedom for ourselves.

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I think that fear came from, "Okay, I'm going to have Beyoncé in the title, and people are just going to think, it's Beyoncé poems. It's light and fu…

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I don't claim to say, "All black women are like me," because they're not. One type of black woman can exist, but also another kind can exist. I also …

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It's hard for black women to ask for help. We think we don't need it. We're used to being in pain and living with it.

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I think sometimes the stars align whether we want them to or not. And we're drawn to certain people and places for no other reason than...Destiny.

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I wanted [the book 'There are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé?'] to be colorful. I wanted it to be evocative. I wanted a figure of a black woman t…

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