- Toni Morrison, in an interview for Poet&Writer 2008.

You were witnessing art, and by complaining it was incomprehensible or not entertaining is, I believe, you becoming a very part of that artwork (and not in a good way).

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…My point is that is has to be both: beautiful and political at the same time. I’m not interested in art that is not in the world. And it’s not just the narrative, it’s not just the story; it’s the language and the structure and what’s going on behind it. Anybody can make up a story.”

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…That all started in the period of state art, when you had the communists and fascists running around doing this poster stuff, and the reaction was ‘No, no, no; there’s only aesthetics.’…

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…And the ones that try hard not to be political are political by saying, ‘We love the status quo.’ We’ve just dirtied the word ‘politics,’ made it sound like it’s unpatriotic or something…

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