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Toni Morrison said that fascism “is recognizable by its determination to convert all public services to private entrepreneurship,” and “changes citizens into taxpayers—so individuals become angry at even the notion of the public good.”

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Toni Morrison said, “I read and read and read until I was 39, and then there was a book I wanted to read and I couldn’t find it, so I wrote it. In order to read it…you know, I’m really not sure there’s any ‘right’ age to start writing.” There’s not. If you wanna write, start.

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Kwame Ture said, “You vote once in four years and that’s your political responsibility? That’s the height of bourgeois propaganda, making the people politically irresponsible. Thinking their responsibility is limited to a one day vote. Politics is every day.”

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James Baldwin said, “Every bombed village is my hometown.”

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Toni Morrison said, “Art does not cleanse you and make you morally superior to anything or anybody, even when it has a very strong political content. The artist himself is not made any better. I still have to try to be the best person I can be.” Thank you.

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Bitch, start writing. Then keep writing and finish it.

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Alice Walker wrote in her journal about learning how to set boundaries so as “not to let myself be manipulated into more responsibility than I want.” As the yoga instructors say, strength without flexibility is just rigidity, and flexibility without strength is just instability.

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Maya Angelou said growing up “means you take responsibility for the time you take up, for the space you occupy. It’s serious business.” And Toni Morrison said being an adult “means growth, taking on responsibilities, stop bitching about it, always.” I’d add moving with integrity.

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In yoga and Pilates classes, they remind us that training is gonna be messy and shaking is a sign of building strength. Same with writing and revising. Keep writing, keep getting stronger.

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Toni Morrison said to have time to write and handle her responsibilities, she had to make some cuts. “Not having the leisure to whine. Not paying close attention to what others thought my life should be like. Not organizing my exterior and interior self for the approval of men.”

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Toni Morrison said, “Sometimes you don’t survive whole, you just survive in part.” Still, that survival means a hell of a lot.

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James Baldwin said, “I realized that writing was not simply the act of writing—that it was something else, something much harder. Which is to tell the truth.” And clarifying things “first of all for myself and then for others.” Being honest with ourselves is part of the work.

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Audre Lorde said, “I have no creative use for guilt, yours or my own. Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action, of buying time out of the pressing need to make clear choices.” Or, as James Baldwin put it, “Guilt is paralysis.”

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Octavia E. Butler said, “Never let pride or laziness prevent you from learning, improving your work, changing its direction when necessary. Persistence is essential...persistence to finish your work, to keep writing in spite of rejection, to keep reading, writing, submitting.”

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Toni Morrison said, “I wanted to be a whole person, I wanted to be a good person...and none of that had anything to do with a job. It was quite apart from the work that I was doing—I respected the work, but I didn’t live there.” Ultimately, you’re trying to live with yourself.

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Nikki Giovanni said, “If I never contradict myself then I’m either not thinking or I’m conciliating positions and, therefore, not growing. There has to be a contradiction.” Consistency can be good, but growth is better.

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Like James Baldwin said, “I live a hope despite my knowing better.”

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Toni Morrison famously said she wrote her first book cuz she wanted to read it. She also “was in a place where I didn’t belong...I was lonely. I was miserable. My children were small, and so I wrote this story.” As James Baldwin said, writers should “use whatever happens to you.”

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Again, bell hooks said, “It is not simply a question of finding time to write—one also writes against time, knowing that life is short…that life is not promised—that it is crucial for a writer to respect time.”

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It’s June 1st, it’s a Saturday, and it’s sunny. A perfect day for me to remember that Gwendolyn Brooks wrote, “Go ahead and live your life. You might be surprised. The world might continue.”

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Asked if she thought she was “truly gifted,” Toni Morrison said, “Yes, I do…and I work hard at it.” Elsewhere she pointed out, “It’s important to remember that a large ego can be generous and enabling, because of its lack of envy,” and confidence can be “wide-spirited.”

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James Baldwin said, “My models—my private models—are not Hemingway, not Faulkner, not Dos Passos, or indeed any American writer. I model myself on jazz musicians, dancers, a couple of whores and a few junkies.”

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Gwendolyn Brooks said in a poem, “Go ahead and live your life. You might be surprised. The world might continue.” Gonna take her advice and touch grass.

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I understand that drawing attention to children is part of how we try to mobilize empathy. But adults don’t deserve to be exterminated either. And children exist in relation to adults! Genocide against adults also harms children.

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Alice Walker wrote in her journal, “Can I write even while riddled with anxiety, jealousy, fear of rejection, aloneness; in short, can I assume responsibility for my own life?”

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Toni Morrison said about being an artist, “It’s not therapy. The pain doesn’t go away.” And “I still have to try to be the best person I can be.” There’s the work, and there’s the work.

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Like Fannie Lou Hamer said, “I’m sick of symbolic things. We are fighting for our lives.”

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James Baldwin said trying to be a writer is “really frightening,” but “what you are doing, as a writer, or any kind of artist, was not designed…to make you special or to—even to isolate you.” As Toni Morrison said, “Don’t get too precious, don’t get too fearful, stay steady.”

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“How do you break the cycle of poverty? You can’t just hand out money.” Toni Morrison: “Why not?…The rich get it handed—they inherit it. I don’t mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism.”

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In a talk, James Baldwin said, “If you try to cling to safety, then you have no life at all. Our responsibility in this, our life, is to try to deal with each other and work toward each other’s freedom.”

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James Baldwin said, “You know, I think there is something very impressive about being able to get through the world—and still be able to be hurt. Because most people seem to give that up so soon.” I love this. It’s about trying to stay warm in a cold, cold world.

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Alice Walker said, “Perhaps writer’s block is simply unresolved emotion in one’s private life.”

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Toni Morrison noted our writing doesn’t have to be for everybody. I wish more advice to authors would take this into account. It distinguishes working on craft and developing a sound from a call for populism that can really be about wanting marketability.

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As Gwendolyn Brooks said in a poem, “Go ahead and live your life. You might be surprised. The world might continue.”

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In her notes, Lorraine Hansberry wrote something W.E.B. Du Bois impressed upon her when she studied with him in the early 1950s: “Somehow you have got to know more than what you experience individually.”

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Toni Morrison noted that as public goods and services are increasingly privatized, “public life is now rendered as visual phenomena,” and we “become ‘ads’ for ourselves under the pressure of the spectacle that flattens our experience of the public/private dichotomy.”

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Toni Morrison said, “It’s easy, and it’s seductive, to assume that data is really knowledge. Or that information is, indeed, wisdom. Or that knowledge can exist without data. And how easy, and how effortlessly, one can parade and disguise itself as another.” Listen.

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Stuart Hall said writing accessibly can’t be done “at the expense of serious thinking, because the last thing that we want is a rousing populist work that doesn’t tell us anything.” As bell hooks said, “The point is not to render ideas less complex but to make the complex clear.”

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As James Baldwin said, “We are responsible for each other and to each other. We are responsible to the future, and not to Chase Manhattan Bank.”

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Hanif Abdurraqib stopped seeing grief as “the sole vehicle for great art when the grief started to take people with it…I’d rather have average art and survival than miracles that come at the cost of someone’s life.” As Toni Morrison said, “The misery does not validate the work.”

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bell hooks wrote “accessibly.” She also critiqued anti-theory and anti-intellectualism. And said, “My decision to stop teaching full-time was influenced by the apathy of many students about reading...the non-readers just simply began to be a toxic presence interrupting class.”

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James Baldwin said, “I’m always scared when I’m writing.” Keep going.

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James Baldwin said the way to be a great writer is “not to complain about anything that happens to you, but to use whatever happens to you—from starvation to champagne.” As Octavia E. Butler noted, “Writers can’t always be choosers. And if we’re serious, we do use everything.”

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Respectfully, you don’t have to personally relate, have a history of resistance, or have done the readings to know that bombing a hospital is vile and inhumane. You just have to have some goddamn feelings.

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James Baldwin said, “When it’s over, when you realized that you’ve not done quite what you wanted to do, but you’ve done the very best you could...all you can do is try to come closer to what you were after in some other piece of work.” Finish it and write like you have a future.

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James Baldwin’s “If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see” often circulates without the part about “that two-way street which I call love” where “I will not see without you.” The full thought gives less holier than thou vibes and more shared growth.

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Ta-Nehisi Coates said, “I want to be a really decent person and a great writer...that’s not small, by the way. Like being a decent person is not a small thing.” As Toni Morrison said, “My responsibilities are to do the best work I can do and to be the best human being I can be.”

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“Do you feel more amused than angry now?” Toni Morrison, age 84: “No, I’m angry all the time. Almost all the time, which is why I write books.”

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Octavia E. Butler said, “If it doesn’t kill you, you probably wind up using it in your writing.” She also said, “As writers, we should use everything that touches us...Writers can’t always be choosers. And if we’re serious, we do use everything.”

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James Baldwin said it’s difficult “to keep your mind and your eye on what you know to be complex, which everyone else wishes to make simple, to remain fixed on what you know to be the truth beneath it...It is a matter of stamina, and one’s got to pray that I have enough stamina.”

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Hanif Abdurraqib said discipline is about showing up repetitively and “showing up is a reminder that I have endured, that I’ve survived enough to have the will and excitement to show up for something else. Sometimes that discipline is how I simply survive from sunrise to sunset.”

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Nikki Giovanni: “People really feel the need to feel better than somebody, don’t they?” James Baldwin: “I don’t know why, but they do…In my own life, I’ve been in competition with me.” Giovanni: “Which is enough.” Baldwin: “Enough? It’s overwhelming.”

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In her late 70s, Toni Morrison said, “I am disturbed about the media manipulation. All sorts of people who I should not have to think about are now stars.”

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James Baldwin said, “The air of this time and place is so heavy with rhetoric, so thick with soothing lies, that one must really do great violence to language, one must somehow disrupt the comforting beat.” And “dismiss any hopes…of winning a popularity contest.”

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