“This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.”   Toni Morrison

“We need arts and entertainment to help inspire us toward justice…The world of arts and entertainment can use their cultural influence to inspire change that we need. There is a role for all who dream of a justice that we haven’t yet experienced.”  Keith Ellison, Minnesota AG, June 2020

“I'll tell you what Freedom is to me. No fear.” Nina Simone

“It’s tragic, in a sense, because the bulk of white Americans treat and think of black people as though we came here yesterday—as though we are very different from and much less valuable than the bulk of white people—and do not realize what they’re doing, what they think they’re doing to black people, is what they’re really doing to themselves. “
James Baldwin, 1984 interview.

“Let’s speak the truth: People are protesting because Black people have been treated as less than human in America. Because our country has never fully addressed the systemic racism that has plagued our country since its earliest days. It is the duty of every American to fix. No longer can some wait on the sidelines, hoping for incremental change. In times like this, silence is complicity.” Cosmopolitan.com - June 4, 2020 - Kamala Harris, the first Black and Indian-American woman to be selected by a major political party for a national election.