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.
TONI MORRISONFreedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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All important things are hard.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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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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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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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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All art is knowing when to stop.
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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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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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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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