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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.

Toni Morrison

I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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House Place Writing
Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Literature One Liner Wisdom
The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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Couple Friendship Gather Giving Love Pieces
You are your own stories.
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Deep One Liner Story
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
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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Knowledge Language Limitation Oppressive Represent Violence
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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Disperate Mystery Problem Sweet Thinking Writing
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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Kindness Ourselves Sister Special
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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Disappear Happen Money People Profit Psychology Racism
All art is knowing when to stop.
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Art Inspirational One Liner Stop
Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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Man People Safe Stupidity Violence Weakness Wicked
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
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
In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Country White
At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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Beautiful Enough Life World
Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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Couple Future Kindness Past Relationship

Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.

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