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From the Ted Talk by Aja Monet and phillip agnew: A love story about the power of art as organizing

Unscramble the Blue Letters


PA: Four yreas ago, this artist ...

AM: and this organizer ...

PA: found that we were not just a match.

AM: We were a mirror.

PA: Our worlds truly did clodile, and in many ways ...

AM: they combined.

PA: We learned so much about movement, about love and about art at its most impactful: when it auctatrleis the impossible and when it erodes individualism, when it plays into the gray pcleas of our black and wthie worlds, when it does what our democracy does not, when it rmdeins us that we are not islands, when it adorns every street but Wall Street and Madison Avenue, when it reminds us that we are not islands and refuses to succumb to the numbness, when it indicts empire and inspires each and every one of us to love, tell the truth and make rteliuvoon irresistible.

Open Cloze


PA: Four _____ ago, this artist ...

AM: and this organizer ...

PA: found that we were not just a match.

AM: We were a mirror.

PA: Our worlds truly did _______, and in many ways ...

AM: they combined.

PA: We learned so much about movement, about love and about art at its most impactful: when it ___________ the impossible and when it erodes individualism, when it plays into the gray ______ of our black and _____ worlds, when it does what our democracy does not, when it _______ us that we are not islands, when it adorns every street but Wall Street and Madison Avenue, when it reminds us that we are not islands and refuses to succumb to the numbness, when it indicts empire and inspires each and every one of us to love, tell the truth and make __________ irresistible.

Solution


  1. places
  2. collide
  3. years
  4. reminds
  5. articulates
  6. white
  7. revolution

Original Text


PA: Four years ago, this artist ...

AM: and this organizer ...

PA: found that we were not just a match.

AM: We were a mirror.

PA: Our worlds truly did collide, and in many ways ...

AM: they combined.

PA: We learned so much about movement, about love and about art at its most impactful: when it articulates the impossible and when it erodes individualism, when it plays into the gray places of our black and white worlds, when it does what our democracy does not, when it reminds us that we are not islands, when it adorns every street but Wall Street and Madison Avenue, when it reminds us that we are not islands and refuses to succumb to the numbness, when it indicts empire and inspires each and every one of us to love, tell the truth and make revolution irresistible.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
great art 3
emory douglas 2
political vision 2


Important Words


  1. adorns
  2. art
  3. articulates
  4. artist
  5. avenue
  6. black
  7. collide
  8. combined
  9. democracy
  10. empire
  11. erodes
  12. gray
  13. impossible
  14. indicts
  15. individualism
  16. inspires
  17. irresistible
  18. islands
  19. learned
  20. love
  21. madison
  22. match
  23. mirror
  24. movement
  25. numbness
  26. organizer
  27. places
  28. plays
  29. refuses
  30. reminds
  31. revolution
  32. street
  33. succumb
  34. truth
  35. wall
  36. ways
  37. white
  38. worlds
  39. years