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I am a writer and my faith in the world of art is intense, but not irrational, nor naïve - because art takes us and makes us take a journey beyond price, beyond cost, into bearing witness to the world as it is and as it should be. Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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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.
The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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.
Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
Laughter is more serious than tears.
Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
Liberation means you don't have to be silenced.
Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.
