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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.

Toni Morrison

He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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Value Women Yourself
The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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Art Beautiful Politics Time
From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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Chance Destiny Inspirational Life Miracle Shape Wait
You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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Love Self Respect Women Empowerment
Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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Art Life Wait
Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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Choose Freedom Responsiblity Want
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 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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Choose Decision Discourage Safe Seldom Value Want
You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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Freedom Inspirational Obligation Save
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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Amount Black Lives Matter Magic Men
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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Book Reading Want
To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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Choose Freedom Love Permission Place
Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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Come Back Dead Deep Hurt Life
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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Man People Safe Stupidity Violence Weakness Wicked
Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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Deep Face Heart Inspirational One Liner Speak
Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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Art Beautiful Circumstance Invitation Tragic

Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.

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