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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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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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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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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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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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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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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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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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You are your best thing.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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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.
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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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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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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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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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