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Toni Morrison

I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Angry Work
There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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Construction Function Human Race Racism Social
What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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Success Want World
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
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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Man People Safe Stupidity Violence Weakness Wicked
Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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Future Inspirational Present
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
Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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Choose Freedom Responsiblity Want
Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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Belong Business Defination Inspirational
But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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Die Dreamer Dreams Finding Truth World
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
Love is never any better than the lover.
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Love Lover
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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Kindness Ourselves Sister Special
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
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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Choose Decision Discourage Safe Seldom Value Want
You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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Freedom Inspirational Obligation Save

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