Racism will disappear when it's no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it'll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.

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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.

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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.

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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.

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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.

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Laughter is more serious than tears.

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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

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All important things are hard.

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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.

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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.

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