"I am no longer willing to endorse a cultural norm whereby artists & artist-educators passively participate-in, & benefit-from institutions born & bolstered through the justification, &/or ongoing practice of exploiting & destroying Blk Native life.” thecrimson.com/article/2022/1…

Grateful. Another day living a life that tires and fulfills me beyond articulation. #Hamlet #Shakespeare #Associatedirector PlayMakers Repertory Company

Has someone ever done something to you and afterwards you’re not upset or don’t forgive them, but you just realised that they clearly don’t rate you and you need to adjust your relationship with them?

I decided I’m NOT working on my attitude, y’all need to stop playing with me fr

"One can only sneak into the university and steal what one can: abuse its hospitality, spite its mission, join its refugee colony, its gypsy encampment,be in but not of-THIS is the path of the subversive intellectual.The only possible relationship is a criminal one." -Fred Moten

Acts ii and iii of Beyoncé's Renaissance are coming. trib.al/diqG4UI

The irony of freelancing is that it requires you to have an almost sociopathic level of faith in yourself yet almost all the freelancers I know are just shy of completely paralyzed by insecurity and self-loathing.

I going to claim this year as the year I don’t have to apply for anything. My work has spoken for me. The people who want to work with me will contact me directly. The people I want to work with will be in close proximity.

The real flex is choosing solitude over fake company and never going back to toxic people no matter how lonely you feel.

Waking up to a my child being 9 today is insaneeee. Time, what are u doing???? Where you goin in such a hurry!

One for me is -What merely living clod, what captive thing, Could up toward God through all its darkness grope, And find within its deadened heart to sing These songs of sorrow, love and faith, and hope? - O Black and unknown Bards, James Weldon J

Whew. Felt.

On Directing…

Black excellence is dope but Black regular-ness is good too. We aint gotta be magical and magnificent all day everyday lol

First Black woman artist of my family. Breaking the cycle of unnecessary labor & introducing us all to a new level of choices.

Let my kid stay home from school today. 9 year olds need mental health day breaks too. Go ahead and sleep in today, sis ✨

Faith, Curiosity and Discipline are essential pieces of the practicing artist thing (all three are forms of Love)

Integrity and Celebrity aren’t interchangeable and for the most part, hardly ever go hand and hand.

There are deeper systemic causes beneath the sea of America’s economic despair.