Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
TONI MORRISONNavigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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You are your own stories.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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You are your best thing.
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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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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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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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What a woman. What a life.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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