Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
TONI MORRISONBlack people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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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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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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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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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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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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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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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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