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Willa Brown

“When Willa Brown, a shapely young brownskin woman, wearing white jodhpurs, a form fitting white jacket and white boots, strode into our newsroom, in 1936, she made such a stunning appearance that all the typewriters suddenly went silent…Unlike most visitors, [she] wasn’t at all bewildered. She had a confident bearing and there was an undercurrent of determination in her husky voice as she announced, not asked, that she wanted to see me.” — Enoch P. Waters, Editor, Chicago Defender

American aviator, lobbyist, teacher, and civil rights activist. She was the first African American woman to earn a pilot’s license in the United States, the first African American woman to run for the United States Congress, first African American officer in the Civil Air Patrol, and first woman in the U.S. to have both a pilot’s license and an aircraft mechanic’s license. Some credit her with teaching the first wave of “Tuskegee Airman” before a formal program was created.

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Leaving Akrasia

“Akrasia is the state of acting against your better judgment. It is when you do one thing even though you know you should do something else. Loosely translated, you could say that akrasia is procrastination or a lack of will. Akrasia is what prevents you from following through on what you set out to do.”

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American Cemeteries

Bravery a flight
above battle
ending often
with wounded hearts.

Sand the latter vessel
for blood and flesh
former pumps and pipes.

Bones once clad black
decay not with similar femurs
because they were not thought
rich enough.

Handstands & Other Feats by C. Z. Vasser