Love is never any better than the lover.
TONI MORRISONLonely was much better than alone.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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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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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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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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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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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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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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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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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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All important things are hard.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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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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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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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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Being able to laugh got me through.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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