"Being a human being without forgiveness is like being a guitarist without fingers or being the diva without a tongue."

-- Jimmy Santiago Baca

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“The Negro wants to be everything but himself... He wants to integrate with the white man, but he cannot integrate with himself or with his own kind. The Negro wants to lose his identity because he does not know his own identity.”
“What quality is shared by all objects that provoke our aesthetic emotions? Only one answer seems possibleâ€” significant form. In each, lines and colors combined in a particular way; certain forms and relations of forms, stir our aesthetic emotions. These relations and combinations of lines and colors, these aesthetically moving forms, I call â€˜Significant Formâ€™; and â€˜Significant Formâ€™ is the one quality common to all works of visual art.”
“Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.”
“Thereâ€™s a saying in Africa, if you give a woman empowerment, you empower a community, you empower men, you empower man. When women become empowered and live in their strength itâ€™s beneficiary to others, and I think as young women today we sometimes forget that we are standing on the struggle of other women. Those women had to stand up to make a change, and they were not popular, and now weâ€™re making them unpopular again.”
“Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.”

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“Those who deplore our militants, who exhort patience in the name of a false peace, are in fact supporting segregation and exploitation. They would have social peace at the expense of social and racial justice. They are more concerned with easing racial tension than enforcing racial democracy.”
“I admit to having an imagination feverish enough to melt good judgment.”
“I never hid out. I was never big enough a star.”

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