I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.

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Liberation means you don't have to be silenced.

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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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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.

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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.

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

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All important things are hard.

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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.

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The function of freedom is to free someone else.

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