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Something that is loved is never lost.

Toni Morrison

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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Book Reading Want
I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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Fall In Love Love One Liner Rose
Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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Black Lives Matter Country People Power Prevent War
Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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Art Life Wait
She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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Colour Horror Learning Loneliness She
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
You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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Attitude Inspirational People Rely Tough Yourself
Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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Art Beautiful Circumstance Invitation Tragic
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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Feeling Safe Writing
I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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Come Back Deep Dreams One Liner
Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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Awake Door Misery Walk
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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Children Look Room Walk
Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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Belong Business Defination Inspirational
We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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Freedom Leisure Passion Violence
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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Concept Enemy Men World
Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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Claim Freedom Ownership Yourself

Something that is loved is never lost.

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