All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.
All of art is a search for ways of being, of living life more fully.
Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.
Death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner.
Freedom is heavy. You got to put your shoulder to freedom. Put your shoulder to it and hope your back holds up.
Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone's disbelief.
I found out life's hard but it ain't impossible...
The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is.
There are always and only two trains running. There is life and there is death. Each of us rides them both. To live life with dignity, to celebrate and accept responsibility for your presence in the world is all that can be asked of anyone.
What do you do with your legacy, and how do you best put it to use?
White folks don't understand the blues. They hear it come out, but they don't know how it got there. They don't understand that's life's way of talking. You don't sing to feel better. You sing 'cause that's a way of understanding life.
You are responsible for the world that you live in. It is not government's responsibility. It is not your school's or your social club's or your church's or your neighbor's or your fellow citizen's. It is yours, utterly and singularly yours.
You get to the point where your demons, which are terrifying, get smaller and smaller and you get bigger and bigger.
You got to be right with yourself before you can be right with anybody else.
Your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.
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