proudness

“She has a proudness about her that refuses to grow small,” she says, but “it’s her curiosity in her own power, its reach and its limit, that frightens me. Though maybe the truth is that when I am not afraid for her, I envy her.”

“And I think because of his ability to instill in all of us a moment of proudness for our flag and for other people, he’ll never be forgotten.”

“To see someone like Janelle be able to voice her proudness of being a queer woman makes me so proud,” says singer-songwriter Dawn Richard.

Barnes was able to “share our dark past yet articulate in color what the future could be - the proudness of our history, the proudness of our future. Ernie encapsulated all of that.”

Barnes was able to “share our dark past yet articulate in color what the future could be — the proudness of our history, the proudness of our future. Ernie encapsulated all of that.”