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Background, transcript, and related reading: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/03/28/angela-duckworth-grit-success/

Excerpt from NPR's TED Radio Hour: http://www.npr.org/programs/ted-radio-hour/?showDate=2014-03-21

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Angela Duckworth on grit and success

Background, transcript and discussion: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/04/21/patti-smith-pratt-commencement/

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Patti Smith Pratt Commencement Address (May, 2010)

Recorded at the Books at Noon program at The New York Public Library. Details and transcript: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/06/19/joyce-carol-oates-nypl-hemingway

Subscribe to the Books at Noon podcast here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/new-york-public-library-podcast/id804982781?mt=2

Joyce Carol Oates on great art and learning from Hemingwaye

Context and transcribed highlights: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/04/08/anna-deavere-smith-sarah-lewis-nypl-beauty/

Recorded at The New York Public Library, March 2014. Subscribe to NYPL's free podcast here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/new-york-public-library-podcast/id804982781?mt=2

Sarah Lewis and Anna Deavere Smith on Inspiring Failures

Context, transcript, and Strayed's expanded advice: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/04/13/cheryl-strayed-write-like-a-motherfucker-advice/

Excerpted from the New York Public Library podcast: http://www.nypl.org/voices/blogs/blog-channels/podcast

Photograph by Graeme Mitchell for The New York Times

Cheryl Strayed on how to write like a motherfucker

Background, context, and poem text: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/07/15/nikki-giovanni-love-friendship-loneliness/

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"Choices" by Nikki Giovanni

Commentary and transcript: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/07/21/toni-morrison-wellesley-commencement/

Toni Morrison's Wellesley commencement address (2004)

Background, context, and transcribed text: https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/04/13/james-baldwin-the-artists-struggle-for-integrity/

Recording by Pacifica Radio Archives.

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James Baldwin: The Artist's Struggle for Integrity (full lecture)

The celebrated poet reads the seminal letter of political protest, in which she became the first and only person to date to refuse the highest honor bestowed upon an artist on behalf of the people. Background and discussion: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/05/16/adrienne-rich-national-medal-of-arts-letter/

Adrienne Rich declines the National Medal of Arts, 1997

Teresita Fernandez Commencement Speech, delivered at Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts, May 11, 2013

James Baldwin: The Artist's Struggle for Integrity (full lecture)

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