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Democratic in thinking and conservative in principles, Marissa Calhoun is 22, and works as a News assistant at Cable News Network (CNN) based in their Washington, DC bureau. In 2010, Marissa graduated with honors from Bucknell University where she double majored in English, Film & Media Studies and Women and Gender Studies. Marissa has had numerous internship experiences in the media and television industries. Her passion and the pursuit of her heart is journalism. While in college Marissa interned with The Public Broadcasting Network, Voice of America, MTV Network's and The Discovery Channel. She is currently writing a testimonial piece entitled "Letters To A Sister On Loving" which will highlight the unsettling experience of abuse during one's childhood, Black female identity and coming of age. In 2011 Marissa will serve as a Reporter for the Women in Media Foundations Congressional Conference in which the World's top female journalist come together to give account of their experiences and hardships in the field of communications.

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Words from the past..guiding lights for our future!


This posting inspired by a GREAT conversation... 


A compilation of my favorite quotes from Sr. Dubois

"It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity."

"One ever feels his twoness-an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder."


"But what of black women? . . . I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire."
 
"There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained."
 
 "A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills."
 
"Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime."

-W.E.B. Dubois 

DEFINE YOURSELF, FOR YOURSELF!
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