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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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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.
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.
Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
Laughter is more serious than tears.
A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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.
