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While their experiences with white politicians, landowners, and merchants left them feeling dependent, vulnerable, exploited, and fearful for their very lives, their cooperatives enacted strategies of prefigurative politics, economic
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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
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“Love art in yourself, and not yourself in art.”
― My Life In Art
― My Life In Art
“True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their
own.”
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own.”
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“The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”
― All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
― All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
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