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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.

Toni Morrison

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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Angry Aware Love Presence Reality Worth
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
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
Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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Black Lives Matter Crime Live Racism Traget
Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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Art Life Wait
What a woman. What a life.
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Life Woman
Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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Awake Door Misery Walk
Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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Beautiful Women
I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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Book Dominant Life Spend Try White Writing
Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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Art Beautiful Circumstance Invitation Tragic
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
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
To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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Choose Freedom Love Permission Place
At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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Beautiful Enough Life World
Being able to laugh got me through.
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Inspirational Laugh One Liner Positive
Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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Artist Danger She Women

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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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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