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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.

Toni Morrison

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
If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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Book Writing
Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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Love One Liner
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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Colour Horror Learning Loneliness She
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
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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Civilization Despair Fear Healing Language Silence Time Writing
There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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Difference Hard Work Honesty Life Live Pay Writing
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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Book Dominant Life Spend Try White Writing
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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Difficult Distraction Game Theory World
What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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Success Want World
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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Knowledge Language Limitation Oppressive Represent Violence
I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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Book Excitement Want Writing
All art is knowing when to stop.
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Art Inspirational One Liner Stop
Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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Disappear Happen Money People Profit Psychology Racism
Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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Belong Business Defination Inspirational
Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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Beg Deep Inspirational Love Self Respect

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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