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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.

Toni Morrison

Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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Knowledge Language Limitation Oppressive Represent Violence
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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Die Inspirational Language Life Live Measure
You are your own stories.
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Deep One Liner Story
In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Country White
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 get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Angry Work
Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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Beautiful Women
You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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Fly Freedom Give Up Let Go Shit Weigh
As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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Dreams Inspirational Position Power Thinking
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
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
He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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Value Women Yourself
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
A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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Friendship Giving Pieces
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
You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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Freedom Inspirational Obligation Save

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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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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