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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.

Toni Morrison

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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Angry Aware Love Presence Reality Worth
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
Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Literature One Liner Wisdom
He wants to put his story next to hers.
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Couple Love Story Want
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
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
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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Art Beautiful Politics Time
It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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Break Up Broken Heart Fortune Leaving Missing Sheer
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
Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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Interesting Male Navigate Threat White
I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Angry Work
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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Difficult Except Handle Inspirational Refuge
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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Amount Black Lives Matter Magic Men
There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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Civilization Despair Fear Healing Language Silence Time Writing
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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Circle Cry Loud Sad Sorrow
Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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Couple Future Kindness Past Relationship

A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.

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