Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
TONI MORRISONBlack women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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What a woman. What a life.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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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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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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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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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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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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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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