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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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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Literature One Liner Wisdom
I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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Book Excitement Want Writing
Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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Attitude Difference Fashion Motivational Passion Yourself
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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Construction Function Human Race Racism Social
Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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Liberty Silence
I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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Book Dominant Life Spend Try White Writing
Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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Come Back Dead Deep Hurt Life
Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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Disperate Mystery Problem Sweet Thinking Writing
I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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Black Lives Matter People Speak Want
Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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Angry Aware Love Presence Reality Worth
Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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Future Inspirational Present
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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Children Need Parents Raise Thinking Village
You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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Freedom Inspirational Obligation Save
All art is knowing when to stop.
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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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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