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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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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
You are your own stories and therefore free to imagine and experience what it means to be human... And although you don't have complete control over the narrative - no author does, I can tell you - you could nevertheless create it.
All important things are hard.
Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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.
I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
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.
