At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
TONI MORRISONBlack people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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