The function of freedom is to free someone else.

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

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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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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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Liberation means you don't have to be silenced.

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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.

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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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