There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
TONI MORRISONWe die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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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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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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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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Lonely was much better than alone.
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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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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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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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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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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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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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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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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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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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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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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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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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