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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.

Toni Morrison

For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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Beautiful Black Lives Matter Complex Country History Impact Place
A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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Dreams Fashion Nightmare
Love is never any better than the lover.
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Love Lover
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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Book Writing
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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Colour Horror Learning Loneliness She
Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Literature One Liner Wisdom
Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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Black Lives Matter Music People
I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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Comfortable Help Talent Teaching Writing
In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Country White
The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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Couple Friendship Gather Giving Love Pieces
Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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Love One Liner
From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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Chance Destiny Inspirational Life Miracle Shape Wait
The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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Concept Enemy Men World
In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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Artist Choose Silence Time Work
Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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Feeling Safe Writing
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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Civilization Despair Fear Healing Language Silence Time Writing

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