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“My drum is a spiritual connection to the African ancestors and to the world around me... I create spaces where other artists can join in a spirit of trust and improvisation.”
— Karen Smith, Percussionist“To me, writing is both a practice of synthesizing human experience through language and interrogating the role of that synthesis in the experience of being alive.”
— Carmen Maria Machado, WriterBarbara Earl Thomas: The Illuminated Body
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