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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.

Toni Morrison

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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Disappear Happen Money People Profit Psychology Racism
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
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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Beautiful Black Lives Matter Complex Country History Impact Place
All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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Allow Design Paradise People
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
Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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Choose Freedom Responsiblity Want
The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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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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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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Beautiful Women
All art is knowing when to stop.
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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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Love One Liner
My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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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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