Pour out a little liquor and reminisce
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“I nodded. There were many suggestions. Everyone wanted to make me better, but we couldn’t even name the problem.”
— Victor LaValle, The Ecstatic
A Snippet:
Did you know that many of Victor LaValle’s fictional characters battle mental health challenges within his works?
As the author has stated, “Mental illness has absolutely been one of the fundamental concerns of my early work . . . but even more so because I’ve got a few generations of family members who’ve dealt with clinical issues of mental illness and so, inevitably, it’s become a part of my world view.”
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13. “Woman in Yellow Dress” (1959)
“In the fine arts field, the mountain is not coming to Mohammed . . . Many a Black Daniel Boone is clearing rugged terrain and thick swamps and jagged cliff-sides with palette and brush.”
— Joseph Delaney
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