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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.

Toni Morrison

Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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Black Lives Matter Each Other Friendship Women
Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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Human Life Perhaps Relationship Save
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
Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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Black Lives Matter Music People
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
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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Book Writing
For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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Beautiful Black Lives Matter Complex Country History Impact Place
A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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Friendship Giving Pieces
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.
TONI MORRISON

Book Reading Want
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 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
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
I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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Comfortable Help Talent Teaching Writing
At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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Beautiful Enough Life World
Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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Artist Danger She Women
The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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Ability Imagination Power Strange Writing

I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.

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