Challenging Oppression
Original artwork titled “I, Too Sing America” (2017) created by Marilyn Holmes
“In a racist society, it is not enough to be non-racist. We must be anti-racist.”
— Angela Davis
“The beauty of anti-racism is that you don't have to pretend to be free of racism to be an anti-racist. Anti-racism is the commitment to fight racism wherever you find it, including in yourself. And it's the only way forward.”
— Ijeoma Oluo
“None of us alone can save the nation or the world. But each of us can make a positive difference if we commit ourselves to do so.”
— Cornel West
“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.”
— Audre Lorde
Healing and Self-Care
Quote from Louise Hay, “Feelings Jar” (2019) created by R. Tate
Original artwork titled “heARTful remedies” (2020) created by R. Tate
“You are your best thing.”
— Toni Morrison
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”
— Audre Lorde
“You don’t ever have to apologize for creating a safer space for yourself.”
— Daniell Koepke
“If I am to speak of healing, then I must first speak of trauma.”
— Jeanine M. Canty
“We often find our way by getting lost and found, time and time again. By breaking and unbreaking piece by piece, one by one. By unlearning and relearning. By shifting and shaping into who we are in this imperfect and uncertain life.”
— Alexandra Elle
Creativity
Original Artwork titled “Growing Hope” (2014) created by R. Tate
“Art is a way of emptying the mind and centering the Self.”
— Alan Watts
“There’s no such thing as creative people and non-creative people. There are only people who use their creativity and people who don’t.”
— Brené Brown
“If we want to make meaning, we need to make art. Cook, write, draw, doodle, paint, scrapbook, take pictures, collage, knit, rebuild an engine, sculpt, dance, decorate, act, sing - it doesn't matter. As long as we're creating, we're cultivating meaning.”
— Brené Brown