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“People always coming up with excuses about why they can’t do this and why they can’t do that. You can do anything you want to do.” — Terry McMillan, Mama, 1987
A Snippet:
Did you know that Terry McMillan’s 1996 best-selling novel How Stella Got Her Groove Back—which explored a May-December romance—was based on McMillan’s own experience with her former husband, Jonathan Plummer, whom she married in 1998 when she was 47 year-old, single mom, and he was 24?
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Quotes and Black Art
Thursday, April 16, 2026 (Lesson 11)
31. “Tea and Conversations” (2014) by Synthia SAINT JAMES
“I’m a ‘Woman of Color.’ I don’t actually bring my identity into my art — it’s in my DNA so it just surfaces on its own.”
- Synthia SAINT JAMES
32. “Funeral Procession” (c. 1950) by Ellis Wilson
“If I’m making any statement, it’s to just show Black people in normal scenarios, where drugs and guns are nothing to do with it.”
- Ellis Wilson
33. “Sisters of the Sun” by Carl Owens
“In the end, all you have are the people who love you and the work that you leave behind.”
- Carl Owens
The Silver Lining?
"I mean, nothing changes if nothing changes. At the end of the day, it all starts with me, so I thank God. I got a chance. So I made that choice, and that choice was to change." - Antwuan Dixon (b. 1988, pro skateboarder)
Aries Birthdays!
(March 21st - April 19th)
April 13 - Al Green
April 15 - Sexyy Red
April 16 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Chance the Rapper, and Martin Lawrence (today)!
April 17 - Lela Rochon
April 17 - Redman
April 17 - Tami Roman
(Breathe In . . . Breathe Out)
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