All important things are hard.
TONI MORRISONBlack women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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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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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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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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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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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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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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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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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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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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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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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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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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