Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
TONI MORRISONBlack boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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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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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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What a woman. What a life.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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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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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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