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.

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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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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.

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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.

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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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Liberation means you don't have to be silenced.

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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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The function of freedom is to free someone else.

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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.

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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.

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