Quotes by Morgan Parker

Morgan Parker

After a while, being so honest and so vulnerable on the page ends up affecting my own kind of self possession in the world, because I am not afraid of myself and my own thoughts. I think so much of being a woman, of being a social being, of being polite, is quieting those thoughts. There’s so much we try not to say as we go through the day. There’s a lot of tempering and self-editing. It is a relief to make writing that space where I don’t need to do that.

Thinking

Trying

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And I would stop and take you in, all of you, and when our eyes lock we’d just stare into each other’s souls and all of the lost time would come out in the shape of a big smile, a few tears and a tight hug that feels like…I don’t know, it would feel like home.

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Art movements are always linked to some kind of turmoil. We can look at history and see that [political turmoil is] fertile ground for art. I also think that it gives artists something, a way of kind of processing. My friends and I have all been super motivated to work and to do the work that we need to and want to and think should be in the world. Hard times are really a fire under your ass to prioritize and think, “Okay, how can I challenge myself to put something in the world that wasn’t there that can reach other folks and help them to process”?

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Hard Times

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Hard times are really a fire under your ass to prioritize and think, “Okay, how can I challenge myself to put something in the world that wasn’t there that can reach other folks and help them to process?”

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Hard Times

Thinking

I also think that [political turmoil] gives artists something, a way of kind of processing.

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Giving

Thinking

I always say that my artist statement is to not be afraid to talk about the messiness – the unpleasant feelings and happenings around my life.

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Feelings

Messiness

I always say that my artist statement is to not be afraid to talk about the messiness – the unpleasant feelings and happenings around my life. I also try to convey what it feels like and sounds like and smells like and looks like inside of my particular skin, to move through the world as a black American woman in her mid-twenties. Language from songs and TV shows feel integral because it helps to create the environment and describe the full picture.

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Moving

Song

I don’t claim to say, “All black women are like me,” because they’re not.

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Like Me

I don’t claim to say, “All black women are like me,” because they’re not. One type of black woman can exist, but also another kind can exist. I also really hope that people feel permission to talk about their own troubles, but also to celebrate themselves. Sometimes I feel as though I’m trying to take a hit for the team so that other people then can move forward. I’m like, “Look, I just laid out all of my stuff, so what’s the worst that can happen”?

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People

Team

I don’t think that there are as many black women or women of color becoming psychiatrists, so we can’t find them and then we feel looked at and studied and that’s part of what is damaging to us. It’s hard to find therapy that is actually a tool for your own liberation. I think we can be really distrustful.

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Quotes by Morgan Parker

Morgan Parker

And I would stop and take you in, all of you, and when our eyes lock we’d just stare into each other’s souls and all of the lost time would come out in the shape of a big smile, a few tears and a tight hug that feels like…I don’t know, it would feel like home.

Hard times are really a fire under your ass to prioritize and think, “Okay, how can I challenge myself to put something in the world that wasn’t there that can reach other folks and help them to process?”

I also think that [political turmoil] gives artists something, a way of kind of processing.

I always say that my artist statement is to not be afraid to talk about the messiness – the unpleasant feelings and happenings around my life.

I don’t claim to say, “All black women are like me,” because they’re not.

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