Yep - we talking 'bout practice
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Quotes and Black Art
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“Come for the art, stay for the quotes.”
“See that you don’t forget it . . . Times ain’t always gonna be like this, and when the breaks come you gotta be prepared to take them.”
— Louise Meriwether
A Snippet:
Did you know that Louise Meriwether (1923 - 2023) lived to be a centenarian and that her 1970 debut novel, Daddy Was A Number Runner, contains a praise-worthy foreword by James Baldwin?
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Quotes and Black Art
Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025 (week 66)
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196. “Seeking” by Kenesha Sneed
Pasadena, California, artist Kenesha Sneed (b. 1985) on practice:
“Finding your voice has a lot to do with confidence, and a lot of that just comes from practicing.”
197. “Untitled (Bus)” (circa 1982) by Mose Tolliver
Montgomery, Alabama’s Mose Tolliver (1920 - 2006) on accepting charity (after battling depression when a thousand-pound crate of marble fell from a forklift at his factory job, crushing his legs):
“I said, ‘I ain’t got no paint.’ He said, ‘I’ll give you the paint.’ I said, ‘I ain’t got no brushes.’ He said, ‘I’ll give you the brushes.’”
198. “No Need Of Speech” (2018) by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
British artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (b. 1977) on the many forms of artistic expression:
“I write about the things I can’t paint and paint the things I can’t write.”
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The Silver Lining:
There’s often an intense, misunderstood public focus on your daily progress vs. your total performance, and while both do matter, in the end, no one is capable of defining your own success better than you
(Breathe In . . . Breathe Out)
Yep - we talking ‘bout practice
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