Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
TONI MORRISONPerhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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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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Lonely was much better than alone.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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All important things are hard.
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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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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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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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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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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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You are your best thing.
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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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