As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
TONI MORRISONWicked 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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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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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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All important things are hard.
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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 people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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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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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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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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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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You are your best thing.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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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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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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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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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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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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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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