My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
TONI MORRISONMy theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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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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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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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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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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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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You are your best thing.
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