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BUFFALO ARTS ACADEMY PRESENTS...
KNOW HER NAME, a digital experience celebrating Black women.
This space was created by students as an acknowledgment of the strength, love, and leadership stored in the hearts of black women.
“I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is. I have a right to be this way...I can't apologize for that, nor can I change it, nor do I want to... We will never have to be other than who we are in order to be successful...We realize that we are as ourselves unlimited and our experiences valid. It is for the rest of the world to recognize this, if they choose.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple
"A WOMAN SPEAKS"
Poem by, AUDRE LORDE
Vocalist: Iyana Smith-Poole
Original Music Score: Jared Tinkham
#ChangeMakers
BUFFALO'S VERY OWN CHANGEMAKERS
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”
-Harriet Tubman
Coretta Scott King &
Women of the
Civil Rights Movement
Coretta Scott King saw true freedom as far more than a seat at the front of the bus. It meant addressing the economic, racial, and gender inequalities at the heart of American society.
#WomenoftheCivilRightsMovement
“Even the silence
has a story to tell you.
Just listen. Listen.”
― Jacqueline Woodson,
“You guys know about vampires? . . . You know, vampires have no reflections in a mirror? There’s this idea that monsters don’t have reflections in a mirror. And what I’ve always thought isn’t that monsters don’t have reflections in a mirror. It’s that if you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level, any reflection of themselves. And growing up, I felt like a monster in some ways. I didn’t see myself reflected at all. I was like, “Yo is something wrong with me? That the whole society seems to think that people like me don’t exist?” And part of what inspired me was this deep desire that before I died, I would make a couple of mirrors. That I would make some mirrors so that kids like me might see themselves reflected back and might not feel so monstrous for it.”
― Issa Rae