The power of words, black history month & Toni Morrison

Thick & Thin

Katy Bellotte

History, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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This episode of Thick & Thin is all about the power of WORDS, books & written thought. I explore the life of Toni Morrison and the waves she made in literature, particularly in black American literature. We pay homage to Toni, her courage and her talent, as well as discussing my own personal experiences surrounding the power that books & words have in our world. // My keynote talk in South Carolina details: https://allevents.in/columbia/usc-fashion-week-keynote-speaker-katy-bellotte/200018950288036 // Gladskin Eczema cream: http://us.gladskin.com/ // Follow me on Instagram: @katybellotte Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/thick-and-thin/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey guys, welcome back to thick and thin with me Katie Bilotti it's
0:17.4	Thursday we're back with a brand new episode this episode is extra special
0:22.1	because I have a very, very powerful story of a very powerful woman that I'm going to share with you guys today, Tony Morrison, in honor of Black History Month.
0:31.0	I wanted to talk about someone who really made waves in the
0:34.2	black community and just overall was a really badass bitch. So I want to talk
0:39.4	about her. I'm going to get into that in a second but before I do I just want to kind of you know unwind with you guys talk about my life whatever
0:45.6	Fill you guys in on what I've been up to in my little 650 square foot Manhattan department that I'm sitting in right now and I'm actually staring at this plant that I now
0:53.3	am realizing is dying. I need to water it, but all I have is coffee right here. So anyway,
0:59.6	what do I have going on? So this weekend I'm going to Boston. I go to Boston every once in a while because I do have a lot of friends that live there that ended up there after college. Three of my previous college roommates actually live in Boston, so I'm
1:14.3	visiting I'm staying with one of them seeing the other two at some point, which is
1:18.9	really fun because I mean most of my friends ended up in New York Post Grab
1:22.1	but not all of them did so it's good to see everyone else and Boston is where most of them ended up so I'm going there this weekend
1:28.8	a lot to do in the next couple of weeks I'm actually not doing a lot of fashion week stuff. You guys are asking
1:33.8	me that constantly on my Instagram DMs. I'm not a huge fashion week person to be honest. I'll go to the
1:38.6	parties but the shows and you know all that prep just doesn't really interest me because I feel like
1:44.0	not that I don't like fashion fashion is great and I'm interested in that but there's just something
1:49.1	about like the vanity or not even the vanity that's word, but like, how do I say this nicely?
1:56.1	People, influencers specifically, have this sort of like, there's just like all this unnecessary
2:02.0	hype surrounding fashion week I find. It's like it's not like all this unnecessary hype surrounding
2:02.9	fashion week I find it's like it's not even about the clothes anymore it's
2:06.0	about what you're invited to and what expensive outfit you're wearing to what show
2:11.6	and it's not even about the art anymore and I don't
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