"The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible"
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"Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion. I've seen them doing it. Words set up atmospheres, electrical fields, charges."
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"(M)aybe we too busy being flowers or fairies or strawberries instead of something honest and worthy of respect . . . you know . . . like being people."
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"Revolution begins with the self, in the self.... We'd better take the time to fashion revolutionary selves, revolutionary lives, revolutionary relationships. Mouth don't win the war."
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"Writing is a legitimate way, an important way, to participate in the empowerment of the community that names me."
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"TAKE HEART TO FLAT OUT DECIDE TO BE WELL AND STRIDE INTO THE FUTURE, SANE AND WHOLE"
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"The only proper mask to wear in life is your own damn face."
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"When you dream, you dialogue with aspects of yourself that normally are not with you in the daytime and you discover that you know a great deal more than you thought you did."
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"The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible."
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"Write a lot and hit the streets. A writer who doesn't keep up with what's out there ain't gonna be out there."
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"For people sometimes believed that it was safer to live with complaints, was necessary to cooperate with grief, was all right to become an accomplice in self-ambush... Take heart to flat out decide to be well and stride into the future sane and whole."
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"She [my mother] gave me permission to wonder, to dawdle, to daydream."
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"Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation."
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"Revolution begins with the self, in the self."
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"The dream is real, my friends. The failure to make it work is the unreality."
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"My responsibility to myself, my neighbors, my family and the human family is to try to tell the truth."
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"Our lives preserved. How it was; and how it be. Passing it along in the relay. That is what I work to do: to produce stories that save our lives."
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"Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living."
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"Reappraise the past, re-evaluate where we've been, clarify where we are, and predict or anticipate where we are headed. . . ."
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"When we ever invited the beast to dinner he didn't come in and swipe the napkins and start taking notes on the tablecloth 'bout how to take over the whole house?"
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