Sentences with phrase «black writers know»

Black writers know better.

Black writers know what it means for the flesh to be despised, and know that there is no life of the spirit without the body and community.

Not exact matches

I know plenty of black surgeons and professors and writers and artists; none of them are stupid.

My understanding — 2nd hand, but from reliable «sciency» food writers, is that when you salt the bean soaking liquid, the salt gets in the bean and then causes the bean to repel water — which has explained a period of time when EVERY SINGLE time I tried to make black bean - something - or - other the little buggers came out hard, no matter how long they soaked or cooked.

But in her spare time, Packnett also manages to be both a writer and activist and is one of the Black Lives Matter movement's most well - known faces, thanks to her work coordinating the Ferguson protests and cofounding the police reform effort Campaign Zero.

Credited to three writers, «The Fighter» was directed by David O. Russell, who reportedly rewrote the screenplay during filming, adding humor to a project originally planned for Darren Aronofsky («The Wrestler,» «Black Swan»), who isn't exactly known for his light touch.

Oh, hell no, says Panther writer - director Ryan Coogler, whose rousing, thoughtful new movie — it's black and it's proud, and says it loud — leverages the classic appeal of Marvel characters in the service of his interest in social, political, and racial themes.

Writer / director James Toback, best known for movies like Bugsy, Two Girls and A Guy, and Black & White, is being accused by multiple women of sexual harassment over a 22 year period.

Writer - director Shane Black knows detective movies and pulp fiction inside out, and in this film he takes elements and scenes that have become staples of those genres and changes them slightly, often to hilarious effect.

Gerard McMurray, writer and director, of the Netflix original film Burning Sands knew his film about the underground process of pledging a Black fraternity was going to cause a stir, but he's ready for the criticism and to lead the discussion about keeping Black Greek organizations alive.

On that special night in 2004 that I blogged about, I was introduced to writer and director Jonathan Demme by Black, and assisted Crispin Glover and Canadian filmmaker Ron Mann (Go Further, Know Your Mushrooms) in and out of the screening at the personal — and quite polite — request of Jarmusch.

Men in Black writer Ed Solomon has revealed he's no longer writing Invisible Man, the monster flick set to star Johnny Depp.

Alice Lowe (Prevenge) Veteran writer and comedy performer Alice Lowe - you know her from Sightseers - made her feature directing debut with pitch black and blood drenched comedy Prevenge, the tale of an expectant mother driven to murder by her unborn child.

Director Joseph Kosinski («Tron: Legacy,» «Oblivion») and writers Ken Nolan («Black Hawk Down») and Eric Warren Singer («American Hustle») set up characters we think we know, from Eric Marsh (Josh Brolin), the tough - but - fair superintendent who always seems to know more about fires than everyone around him; to Amanda (Jennifer Connelly), Eric's veterinarian wife who rescues horses and frets about her husband's safety while he's putting himself in harm's way; to Brendan (Miles Teller), a drug - using screw - up who tries to get his life together when a recent fling results in his becoming a dad.

With ideas coming out at a trickle, we do know some things, such as the possibility of an Eternals movie (which just signed its writers) as well as a possible Black Widow movie (having supposedly met with over 65 possible directors and in active search of writers), and even a Moon Knight movie.

If you are aware of the writer / director Shane Black, you know his zippy style of film has become something of his own.

It needs that — Get Out is already eight months old and few films released in February are ever nominated for Academy Awards, let alone those made by black first - time writer - directors like Jordan Peele, and in the horror genre no less.

Very little is known about the plot but director / writer Shane Black has picked a villain and the casting process has begun.

Black is known for being the writer / director of films such as Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and Iron Man 3.

When Shane Black was hired on direct «Iron Man 3,» fans hoped that Marvel, known for making their presence heavily felt in every step of way, would at least concede to let the practically legendary writer — «Lethal Weapon» and «The Last Boy Scout» rank in his credits — shape the script.

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Susan Ginsburg is one of the better known black literary agents with Writers House Literary Agency.

The family includes ace mechanics, aspiring comic book artists, amateur scientists (because no one will hire a black female astronomer, no matter how brilliant), and writers, including Uncle George, editor and publisher of The Safe Negro Travel Guide, based on the real Negro Motorist Green Book.

It's 1863, and Frederick Douglass, the well - known writer, speaker, abolitionist, and former slave, is the only black man waiting in the crowded room outside Lincoln's office in hopes of meeting the president.

I might never know if I am myself or an unholy doppelganger living off the memories of a dead man after having my soul placed in a flesh puppet carnival prize using esoteric black rituals but one thing I'm sure of is Wesley Scott is a great writer.

The new indie game studio Doublebear is made up primarily of designer / writer Brian Mitsoda of Black Isle and Troika (Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines) fame, and Annie Carlson, best known for her writing on Neverwinter Nights 2: Storm of Zehir.

In recent years, Whitten's best known body of work has been the ongoing Black Monoliths series, begun in the 90s, which uses acrylic and mixed medium to create mosaics of black artists, writers, and political thinkers such as Jacob Lawrence and MalcoBlack Monoliths series, begun in the 90s, which uses acrylic and mixed medium to create mosaics of black artists, writers, and political thinkers such as Jacob Lawrence and Malcoblack artists, writers, and political thinkers such as Jacob Lawrence and Malcolm X.

-- Nikolay Oleynikov, Tsaplya Olga Egorova, Dmitry Vilensky, and others Claire Fontaine (fictional conceptual artist)-- A Paris - based collective including Fulvia Carnevale and James Thornhill CPLY — William N. Copley Diane Pruis (pseudonymous Los Angeles gallerist)-- Untitled gallery's Joel Mesler Donelle Woolford (black female artist)-- Actors hired to impersonate said fictional artist by white artist Joe Scanlan Dr. Lakra (Mexican artist inspired by tattoo culture)-- Jeronimo Lopez Ramirez Dr. Videovich (a «specialist in curing television addiction»)-- The Argentine - American conceptual artist Jaime Davidovich Dzine — Carlos Rolon George Hartigan — The male pseudonym that the Abstract Expressionist painter Grace Hartigan adopted early in her career Frog King Kwok (Hong Kong performance artist who uses Chinese food as a frequent medium)-- Conceptualist Kwok Mang Ho The Guerrilla Girls — A still - anonymous group of feminist artists who made critical agit - prop work exposing the gender biases in the art world Hennessy Youngman (hip - hop - styled YouTube advice dispenser), Franklin Vivray (increasingly unhinged Bob Ross - like TV painting instructor)-- Jayson Musson Henry Codax (mysterious monochrome artist)-- Jacob Kassay and Olivier Mosset JR — Not the shot villain of «Dallas» but the still - incognito street artist of global post-TED fame John Dogg (artist), Fulton Ryder (Upper East Side gallerist)-- Richard Prince KAWS — Brian Donnelly The King of Kowloon (calligraphic Hong Kong graffiti artist)-- Tsang Tsou - choi Klaus von Nichtssagend (fictitious Lower East Side dealer)-- Ingrid Bromberg Kennedy, Rob Hult, and Sam Wilson Leo Gabin — Ghent - based collective composed of Gaëtan Begerem, Robin De Vooght, and Lieven Deconinck Lucie Fontaine (art and curatorial collective)-- The writer / curator Nicola Trezzi and artist Alice Tomaselli MadeIn Corporation — Xu Zhen Man Ray — Emmanuel Radnitzky Marvin Gaye Chetwynd (Turner Prize - nominated artist formerly known as Spartacus Chetwynd)-- Alalia Chetwynd Maurizio Cattelan — Massimiliano Gioni, at least in many interviews the New Museum curator did in the famed Italian artist's stead in the»90s Mr. Brainwash (Banksy - idolizing street artist)-- Thierry Guetta MURK FLUID, Mike Lood — The artist Mark Flood R. Mutt, Rrose Sélavy — Marcel Duchamp Rammellzee — Legendary New York street artist and multimedia visionary, whose real name «is not to be told... that is forbidden,» according to his widow Reena Spaulings (Lower East Side gallery)-- Artist Emily Sundblad and writer John Kelsey Regina Rex (fictional Brooklyn gallerist)-- The artists Eli Ping (who now has opened Eli Ping Gallery on the Lower East Side), Theresa Ganz, Yevgenia Baras, Aylssa Gorelick, Angelina Gualdoni, Max Warsh, and Lauren Portada Retna — Marquis Lewis Rod Bianco (fictional Oslo galleris)-- Bjarne Melgaard RodForce (performance artist who explored the eroticized associations of black culture)-- Sherman Flemming Rudy Bust — Canadian artist Jon Pylypchuk Sacer, Sace (different spellings of a 1990s New York graffiti tag)-- Dash Snow SAMO (1980s New York Graffiti Tag)-- Jean - Michel Basquiat Shoji Yamaguchi (Japanese ceramicist who fled Hiroshima and settled in the American South with a black civil - rights activist, then died in a car crash in 1991)-- Theaster Gates Vern Blosum — A fictional Pop painter of odd image - and - word combinations who was invented by a still - unnamed Abstract Expressionist artist in an attempt to satirize the Pop movement (and whose work is now sought - after in its own right) Weegee — Arthur Fellig What, How and for Whom (curators of 2009 Istanbul Biennial)-- Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić, Sabina Sabolović, Dejan Kršić, and Ivet Curlin The Yes Men — A group of «culture - jamming» media interventionists led by Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos

Best known for her roles in John Waters» movies — my favorite of which is Female Trouble — Cookie Mueller was also a brilliant writer, authoring Ask Doctor Mueller, How to Get Rid of Pimples, the novella Fan Mail, Frank Letters, and Crank Calls, and her memoir Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black.

Conceptual artist and writer Hannah Black is best known for her open letter criticizing the curators of the 2017 Whitney Biennial for exhibiting Dana Schultz's painting Open Casket.

«Recently, a writer from USA Today wanted to know if the National Black Chamber of Commerce receives money from fossil fuel companies (coal, oil, natural gas, petrochemicals, etc.).

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