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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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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If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.

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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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The function of freedom is to free someone else.

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If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

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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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Laughter is more serious than tears.

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

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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.

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