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

Toni Morrison

Lonely was much better than alone.
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Alone Loneliness One Liner Sad
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
Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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Interesting Male Navigate Threat White
If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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Book Writing
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
Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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Artist Danger She Women
I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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Book Dominant Life Spend Try White Writing
Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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Come Back Dead Deep Hurt Life
Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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Feeling Safe Writing
I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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Break Strawberry Summer
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
Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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Beautiful Women
All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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Allow Design Paradise People
The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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Concept Enemy Men World
I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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House Place Writing
Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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Knowledge Language Limitation Oppressive Represent Violence

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

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