Jess Valoris
“If we can start associating fear with our own personal development, it becomes a little less scary, and a little more worth it.”
Laveen Edwards
“When I’m gone I want people to remember me as a woman who went after everything she wanted and a great mother.”
Richard S. Brookshire III
“...no one can quite ‘give you’ your freedom - it is something you take. Malcolm said that.”
Kailyn Brown
“I try my hardest to treat both of my passions with equal respect and care, as if I had two children.”
Briana Thompson
“...God has given me this gift to manage and manifest, and to not succeed would mean that I properly honor my gifts.”
Raven Irabor
“...the utilization of the ‘black body’ is just truly a natural part of my existence and my network.”
Ayanna McNeil
“Asking black artists to separate their art from their blackness is asking them to separate themselves from the very source of that art.”