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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.

Toni Morrison

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  Love is never any better than the lover.

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  The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.

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  The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.

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  For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.

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  We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.

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  All art is knowing when to stop.

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  I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.

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  You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.

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  I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.

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  There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.

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  And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.

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  We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

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  To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.

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  There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

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