We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
TONI MORRISONAs you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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What a woman. What a life.
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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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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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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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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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