Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
TONI MORRISONSometimes 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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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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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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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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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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Being able to laugh got me through.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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All important things are hard.
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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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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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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