#Sabbatical2021 | William Mathis

William Mathis

GATHER UP THE FRAGMENTS - NOTES FROM CUBA (HAVANA)

The more we pull together toward a new day, the less it matters what pushed us apart in the past. Johnnetta B. Cole I’m interested in...

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GATHER UP THE FRAGMENTS - NOTES FROM BRAZIL (SLAVADOR, BARREIRAS, ITAPARICA, MADRE DE DEUS)

I”m for the Negro. I’m not anti anything. Stokely Carmichael Black women are not here to compete or fight with you, brothers. If we have...

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GATHER UP THE FRAGMENTS - NOTES FROM COLOMBIA (CALI, BUENAVENTURA, PACIFIC COAST, CARTAGENA)

We must adhere staunchly to the basic principle that anything less than full equality is not enough. If we comprise on that principle,...

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GATHER UP THE FRAGMENTS - NOTES FROM SOUTH AFRICA (JOHANNESBURG, SOWETO, SUN CITY, CAPE TOWN)

Life is a bitch, and if it’s not one damn thing, it’s going to be something else. . . . You don’t let that stop you. Count Basie If...

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GATHER UP THE FRAGMENTS - NOTES FROM ACCRA/TAMALE/WA/CAPE COAST GHANA

To be born in a free society and not be born free is to be born into a lie. James Baldwin Know whence you came. If you know whence you...

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GATHER UP THE FRAGMENTS - NOTES FROM DAKAR/GOREE ISLAND, SENEGAL

No one can figure out your worth but you. Pearl Bailey They saw themselves as others had seen them. They have been formed by the images...

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GATHER UP THE FRAGMENTS - NOTES FROM PORT-AU-PRINCE/CAP HAITIEN, HAITI

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise, I rise, I rise. Maya Angelou We all do “Do,...

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GATHER UP THE FRAGMENTS - NOTES FROM WILLEMSTAD, CURAÇAO

Understand the energy more than the words . . . our spirit serves as instruments in which the outflow is not only the pain and suffering...

William Mathis

GATHER UP THE FRAGMENTS - NOTES FROM MONMARTE/CHATEAU ROUGE, PARIS, FRANCE

Racism systematically verifies itself anytime the slave can only be free by intimating his master. Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin I am a person...