Artists have a dual function: first, they know the truth of the human condition. Second, artists prove, and help humanity to grapple with, the notion that [as James Baldwin argued] "safety is an illusion," thus "all artists are divorced from and even necessarily opposed to any system whatever."
-- Michael Eric Dyson, What Truth Sounds Like, p. 90-91
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