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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.

Toni Morrison

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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Cool Love Number Play Self Love Silence Water Wine
There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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Difference Hard Work Honesty Life Live Pay Writing
I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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House Place Writing
We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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Freedom Leisure Passion Violence
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
All art is knowing when to stop.
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Art Inspirational One Liner Stop
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
The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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Art Beautiful Politics Time
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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Book Reading Want
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
When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Broken Heart Pain Sad Suffering
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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Difficult Distraction Game Theory World
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
A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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Gift Life Mankind Necessary Work Writing
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
Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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Choose Freedom Responsiblity Want

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