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.
TONI MORRISONIn times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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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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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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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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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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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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