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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.

Toni Morrison

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
Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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Beautiful Women
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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Book Reading Want
Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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Art Life Wait
When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Broken Heart Pain Sad Suffering
In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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Artist Choose Silence Time Work
Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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Beloved Daughter Face Myself Self Love Sister Women
I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Angry Work
We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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Freedom Leisure Passion Violence
The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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Couple Friendship Gather Giving Love Pieces
A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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Friendship Giving Pieces
Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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Black Lives Matter Country People Power Prevent War
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
There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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Difference Hard Work Honesty Life Live Pay Writing
Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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Attitude Difference Fashion Motivational Passion Yourself
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 wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.

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