The work of art is, after all, an act of faith in our ability to communicate symbolically. - Ralph Ellison

I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And I defend because in spite of it all, I find that I love.

All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was.

So now they're shaking in their boots and looking for someone to give them the answer they want to hear. Not the truth, but some lie that will protect them from the truth