"If we but give it time, a work of art 'can rap and knock and enter our souls' and re-align us - all our molecules - to make us whole again."

-- P. K. Page

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“People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.”
“I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.”
“I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.”
“I was born in New Orleans, and I wasn't allowed to go to the movies.”
“Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how to define America as a place of the common good and not a playground of the strong.”

Source : "A Gathering Swarm" by Todd Gitlin, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2005.
“I believe deeply in a common humanity. The black man belongs to the family of man. One part of that family is out of control - like a virus or cancer - and that is the white man. He and his technological society are bent on destroying the world. Everywhere the white man has gone with his empire, he has destroyed people, races, societies, cultures, and in the course of it, has sterilized himself. He is completely the mechanical man: without heart, without soul. He is the Tin Man of The Wizard of Oz. But I don't believe that all the white people in the world are no good.”

Source : Margaret Walker, Maryemma Graham (2002). “Conversations with Margaret Walker”, p.3, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“If you are willing to take an instant to withdraw attention from whatever your internal dialogue is, to withdraw energy from whatever the latest point of view about your suffering is, it is immediately obvious what is here: the fullness, the richness and the love of oneself as conscious life.”
“Under our thatch, friend, place shall abide for you, touch but the latch, friend, the door will swing wide for you!”

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