A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
TONI MORRISONThe 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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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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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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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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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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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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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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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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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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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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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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You are your own stories.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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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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Something that is loved is never lost.
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I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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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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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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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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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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