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It's important, therefore, to know who the real enemy is, and to know the function, the very serious function of racism, which is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and so you spend 20 years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn't shaped properly so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Someone says you have no art so you dredge that up. Somebody says you have no kingdoms and so you dredge that up. None of that is necessary. There will always be one more thing.
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All important things are hard.
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.
Liberation means you don't have to be silenced.
From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
Laughter is more serious than tears.
I am a writer and my faith in the world of art is intense, but not irrational, nor naïve - because art takes us and makes us take a journey beyond price, beyond cost, into bearing witness to the world as it is and as it should be. Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.
