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

Toni Morrison

What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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Success Want World
Love is never any better than the lover.
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Love Lover
Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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Human Life Perhaps Relationship Save
Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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Beautiful Women
Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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Claim Freedom Ownership Yourself
I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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Break Strawberry Summer
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
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
There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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Art Beginning Civilization Dance Painting
I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Angry Work
All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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Deep Forever Inspirational Memories Memory Water
Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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Art Life Wait
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
The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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Ability Imagination Power Strange Writing
If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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Air Inspirational One Liner Ride Surrender
Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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Interesting Male Navigate Threat White

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

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