You need to write it and paint it and do it.” ( Faith Ringgold)Ĭome and paint with me in Lucca, Italy, May 2019!! “You can’t sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. “We read to find life, in all its possibilities.” ( Roxane Gay) 100% of your listing fee contributes to the production of The Painter’s Keys. Have you considered joining our Premium Artist Listings? Share your work with thousands of readers. But you have to write anyway.” “Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.” ( Franklin D. Of confidence, Gay says, “It’s never going to come necessarily. Her themes include adolescence, television, relationships, writing, American culture, gender, family, sexuality, race, shame and the body. Much of Gay’s work deals with the inquiry and exploration of her personal experiences. After surviving a sexual assault at age 12, she retreated to a world of reading and writing. “I decided to accept as true my own thinking.” ( Georgia O’Keeffe)Įsoterica: Roxane Gay was born in 1974 in Omaha, Nebraska to a family of Haitian decent. PS: “When you can’t find someone to follow, you have to find a way to lead by example.” ( Roxane Gay, from Bad Feminist: Essays) Acrylic on canvas with pieced fabric border,
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