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"I owe it to myself to always be true to myself and be authentic."

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A discussion with the creators of the series exploring the movement on the transcontinental railroad that gave birth to the first Black union in the world

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"My style can't be duplicated or recycled...this chick is a sick individual."

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“The underground and mainstream, they need each other. They feed off each other, and it's a constant cycle.”

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"I walk in my joy." - Jenifer Lewis

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“Pain was greedy; it demanded all of her attention.” - Toni Morrison, Sula

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“We have to be as radical as reality itself.”

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“Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them." - Edwidge…

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"Black people have exposed, by their very existence, the inadequacies not only of the practice of freedom, but of its very theoretical formulation" …

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