You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
TONI MORRISONThere is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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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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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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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.
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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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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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