Day 6 Kuumba (Creativity)

To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.

Embodied Profile

• Bisa Butler is an American fiber artist who has created a new genre of quilting that has transformed the medium. Although quilting has long been considered a craft, her interdisciplinary methods--which create quilts that look like paintings--have catapulted quilting into the field of fine art.

Song

• STLT #149 "Lift Every Voice and Sing"

Quote

• “The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.” - James Baldwin

Book

• A Year of Black Joy: 52 Black Voices Share Their Life Passions by Jamia Wilson. ISBN-13: 9781419767784.

Movie

• The Wiz (1978)