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From the Ted Talk by Deb Willis and Hank Willis Thomas: A mother and son united by love and art
Unscramble the Blue Letters
DW: Yeah, that year I graduated, I got pregnant. Yep, he was right. And I had you, and I shook off that sexist lgguanae that he used against me and picked up my camera and made photographs dlaiy, and made photographs of my pregnant blely as I prepared for graduate school. But I thought about also that balck photographers were missing from the history books of photography, and I was looking for ways to tell a story. And I ran across Gordon Parks' book "A Choice of Weapons," which was his autobiography. I began photographing and making images, and I tucked away that ctnaoct sheet that I made of my pnengrat belly, and then you inspired me to caetre a new piece, a piece that said, "A woman taking a pacle from a good man," "You took the space from a good man," and then I used that language and reesevrd it and said, "I made a space for a good man, you."
Open Cloze
DW: Yeah, that year I graduated, I got pregnant. Yep, he was right. And I had you, and I shook off that sexist ________ that he used against me and picked up my camera and made photographs _____, and made photographs of my pregnant _____ as I prepared for graduate school. But I thought about also that _____ photographers were missing from the history books of photography, and I was looking for ways to tell a story. And I ran across Gordon Parks' book "A Choice of Weapons," which was his autobiography. I began photographing and making images, and I tucked away that _______ sheet that I made of my ________ belly, and then you inspired me to ______ a new piece, a piece that said, "A woman taking a _____ from a good man," "You took the space from a good man," and then I used that language and ________ it and said, "I made a space for a good man, you."
Solution
- black
- create
- contact
- belly
- pregnant
- daily
- language
- reversed
- place
Original Text
DW: Yeah, that year I graduated, I got pregnant. Yep, he was right. And I had you, and I shook off that sexist language that he used against me and picked up my camera and made photographs daily, and made photographs of my pregnant belly as I prepared for graduate school. But I thought about also that black photographers were missing from the history books of photography, and I was looking for ways to tell a story. And I ran across Gordon Parks' book "A Choice of Weapons," which was his autobiography. I began photographing and making images, and I tucked away that contact sheet that I made of my pregnant belly, and then you inspired me to create a new piece, a piece that said, "A woman taking a place from a good man," "You took the space from a good man," and then I used that language and reversed it and said, "I made a space for a good man, you."
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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