Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
TONI MORRISON
Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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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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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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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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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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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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