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

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

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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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All important things are hard.

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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.

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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.

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If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

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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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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.

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