The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquesti…

Toni Morrison
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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time. ✨ Toni Morrison, Carolyn C. Denard (2008). What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction, p.64, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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