Jesse Williams

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jesse Williams abolitionist | director | entrepreneur @BLeBRiTYgame | @My.Scholly | @Ebroji App | @OpenRun | Exec Prod @QuestionBridge | forward never backward 🎥 | www.justicenotfear.org/ |
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@ijessewilliams : ↔️Toni Morrison changed my life. Inflated it. Again and again and again and again. I still remember the chills, my jaw going slack as my head jerked up, eyes out the bus window reflecting- wrestling with the contents of what the hell i just read. The defiant power of these people and concepts she was gifting us. My first reading of Song of Solomon in high school blew my mind and followed me everywhere, literally. I carried it w me as one does a Koran or Bible, or Malcolm X Speaks. A survival guide of artful wisdoms. Always artful. Always wisdoms. I reread and re-examined it so often it fell apart. So i bought another and encased my ground zero in assorted plastics. As if preserving it and myself were one and the same. The Bluest Eye was central to my high school English dept entry curriculum. Beloved caused me to create our own African American Literature course. Toni Morrison taught us to sit into ourselves and power, not as overcompensation or cliché, but simply because it’s true. Firstly and always, Do your work. Make your art. Make it true. 📚 ✊🏾 💛 👑—- “She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.”
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