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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.

Toni Morrison

A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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Gift Life Mankind Necessary Work Writing
Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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Beg Deep Inspirational Love Self Respect
Love is never any better than the lover.
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Love Lover
In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Country White
Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Literature One Liner Wisdom
To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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Choose Freedom Love Permission Place
I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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Break Strawberry Summer
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
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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Disperate Mystery Problem Sweet Thinking Writing
I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Angry Work
He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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Value Women Yourself
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
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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Children Need Parents Raise Thinking Village
Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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Belong Business Defination Inspirational
Something that is loved is never lost.
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Deep Inspirational Lost Love One Liner
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

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