Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
TONI MORRISON
Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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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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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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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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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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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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You are your best thing.
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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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