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"She’d learned early on about a certain unfairness in life. Some folks struggled disproportionately, carrying things that others couldn’t even lift." — Diane Marie Brown, Black Candle Women, 2023
A Snippet:
Did you know that Diane Marie Brown, a professor at Orange Coast College and a public health professional for the Long Beach Health Department, received a BA and a Master of Public Health from UCLA, plus a degree in fiction from USC’s Master of Professional Writing Program? Incredible!
When discussing her varied accomplishments, Prof. Brown commented, “I want my students to know that they can have multiple passions . . . multiple careers.”
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Quotes and Black Art
Thursday, March 26, 2026 (week 54)
“Being a woman is hard work. Not without joy and even ecstasy, but still relentless, unending work.”
— Maya Angelou, 1993
160. “Family” (1986) by Romare Bearden
Harlem Renaissance (aka New Negro Movement) artist Romare Bearden (1911 - 1988)—recognized as one of the most creative and original visual artists of the twentieth century, who once played for the Boston Tigers, a semi-professional, all-Black baseball team, before an unexpected injury caused him to devote a greater focus on his art—on making your mark on the world:
“To whom I would attribute [my drive] I don’t know, but I say that any artist that has this desire for a vision of the world, has something; There’s some painting someplace that’s not in a museum and it’s your idea as a painter to put that one thing that is missing there.”
161. “Painter and Loid Struggle for Soul Control” (2001) by Trenton Doyle Hancock
Oklahoma City born (yet Paris, Texas, raised) artist Trenton Doyle Hancock (b. 1974) on the challenge of staying true to oneself—given the grey in between:
“At some point I realized the fractured self is the true self, and that to go by the script (of society telling you only have one road that you can go down) is actually the antithesis of the American dream. To acknowledge all of the pieces that go into making you a complete person is the route to go.”
162. “one day in the living room, a spirit came upon her and filled her body with a dance she’d never known [channel]” (2022) by ruby onyinyechi amanze
Nigerian-born, British-American artist ruby onyinyechi amanze (b. 1982)—a Fulbright Scholar and Gaga practitioner (who described herself as a “secret dancer”)—on being born an artist:
“I’ve been making art, and identifying as an artist, since I was a small child. It has always been, everything I’ve wanted to do and be. My pursuit of it was single minded. At every point that there was an option, I chose art.”
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