(James Baldwin) argued that the artist must embrace the very thing most folk avoid: the aloneness of the human condition. Part of what it means to be human is to wrestle with the aloneness of "birth, suffering, love, and death"; the artist must encourage folk to engage what they would rather avoid...
-- Michael Eric Dyson, What Truth Sounds Like, p. 90
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