To Be Young, Gifted and Black | 
Gorgeous images from the new exhibition - Her Story: A Century of Women Writers .... won‘t be going in person - but over 20 are online to view -
https://npg.si.edu/exhibition/her-story-century-women-writers?utm_source=siedu&u...
For #pridemonth2020, I'm highlighting 30 openly LGBTQ+ authors. Writer and playwrite Lorraine Hansberry was the first African American woman to have one of her plays performed on Broadway. #lgbtqvoices #blackauthors #lgbtqauthors #blackvoices #pocauthors #pocvoices #playwrite #play
pickLetters. Diary entries. Interviews. Speeches. The Work.
"Plays are better written because one must, even if people think that you are being either artsy-craftsy or plain liar if you say so. One result of this is that I usually don't say it anymore, I just write--at my own dismally slow (and yes, heartbreaking and maddening) commercially disinterested pace and choice of subject matter." -Lorraine Hansberry
"What shall I do this year? What shall I become? What shall I learn--truly learn and know that I have learned by the time I look at these pages next year?"
"We used to, all of us, chide the hearty leftists amongst us for so carelessly referring to their beloved phrase for the enemy: 'Fascist.' But, dear friend, both of us in whatever our present day thinking must admit, in our America today we can, in truth, smell it in the air . . . how foul it is."
I watched Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart last night. Enjoyed both the documentary and the panel discussion that followed. What an incredible woman! In a stroke of luck, I also happened to find the perfect book companion and now get to read about her life in her own words.
"One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know or react to the miseries which affect this world." ~Lorraine Hansberry
Continuing with my #WomensHistoryMonth blogging project, meet Lorraine Hansberry, journalist, activist and writer of A Raisin in the Sun: http://bit.ly/whm18LHansberry
It's Friday it's Friday!
And my mum is visiting from Singapore so she brought goodies like these melt-in-your-mouth kueh bangkit (made w tapioca flour, coconut milk etc, they're light and fragrant), pineapple tarts, her homemade peanut cookies and kueh lapis (layer cake). Sigh. I miss celebrating the new year in Singapore. All the good food and the visiting!
#feistyfeb day 1: #tbr
No firm plans this month except to finish this pile of library books. I've also requested some #comics from the library because it's #comicsfebruary and I can't wait to go pick them up!
Also, yesterday I posted about my top 10 comics!
https://reallifereading.com/2017/01/31/top-comics/
#readjanuary day 26: #autobiography
I recently read A Raisin in the Sun and wanted to learn more about Lorraine Hansberry. And so I picked up this book at the library today.
On Goodreads the subtitle of this book is "an informal autobiography" - it's a collection of her writings as she died too young at age 34.
