Artist Janet Taylor Pickett was the commencement speaker at our daughter’s graduation yesterday from the Art and Design school at the University of Michigan. She shared heart-breaking and appalling stories of being dismissed as a person of color and a woman along her journey to becoming an internationally recognized artist.
What she learned in overcoming these challenges she summed up with this advice: “The world is going to say no to you many times, and when it does you need to say yes to yourself.”
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