I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
TONI MORRISONBlack people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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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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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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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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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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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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