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.
TONI MORRISONAs you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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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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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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You are your best thing.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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You are your own stories.
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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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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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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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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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