"There are women of many descriptions In this queer world, as everyone knows. Some are living in beautiful mansions, And are wearing the finest of clothes. There are blue blood queens and princesses, Who have charms made of diamonds and pearl But the only and thoroughbred lady Is the Rebel Girl...
"Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening." — Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel Tailleurs Lenitis Paris: Tailleurs Lenitis, 1939 TT555 T35 1939 Prior to the 1830s, the word “tweed”...
"I want to be remembered as a women who dared to be a catalyst of change." — Shirley Chisholm Inspiring Women Portfolio: 25 Women Who Have Been True Catalysts for Change Kathryn Hunter Baton Rouge, LA: Blackbird Letterpress, 2020 N7433.4 H8655 I57 2020 Inspiring Women was created in celebration of the...
"I cannot protest the blackness that you are I cannot portray the blackness that you see I can only live the blackness that is me I cannot return to places I've not been I cannot profess a suffering not my own I can only come to you the black I...
"All across America we travel, on and on and I remember Heather saying, All I need is a post office and a liquor store, but the sky is good, with reasons drawn clear like afternoon light." Parking Lots Clarence Major Illustrations by Laura Dronzek Mount Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, 1992 PS3563 A39 P3 1992 Clarence Major was born in...
“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...
"In the furrows of the world the paths of planting the hoe-trails of our people WE can only be do from what we are...
Critical Opalescence Alisa Golden Berkeley, CA: Never Mind the Press, 2004 N7433.4 G65 C75 2004 Critical Opalescence is a 2004 Artists’ book by Alisa Golden. The "Art By Mail" subscription book consists of three, letter-pressed pamphlets themed around an unstable form of water — the phenomenon from which the...
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"My hand now raises the glass, hoping for reasonably happy times, and toasts to your health and ours, and signs...