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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.

Toni Morrison

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
A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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Gift Life Mankind Necessary Work Writing
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
Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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Black Lives Matter Crime Live Racism Traget
When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Broken Heart Pain Sad Suffering
Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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Artist Danger She Women
Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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Claim Freedom Ownership Yourself
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
Something that is loved is never lost.
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Deep Inspirational Lost Love One Liner
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
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
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
Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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Love One Liner
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 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
I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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Fall In Love Love One Liner Rose

Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.

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