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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.

Toni Morrison

Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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Human Life Perhaps Relationship Save
There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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Amount Black Lives Matter Magic Men
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 are your best thing.
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Couple Inspirational One Liner Positive Valentine
You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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Love Self Respect Women Empowerment
Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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Action Book Change Knowledge Mind Political Reflection
Lonely was much better than alone.
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Alone Loneliness One Liner Sad
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
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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Disappear Happen Money People Profit Psychology Racism
We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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Freedom Leisure Passion Violence
I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Angry Work
Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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Claim Freedom Ownership Yourself
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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Construction Function Human Race Racism Social
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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Awake Door Misery Walk
To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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Choose Freedom Love Permission Place
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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Difficult Except Handle Inspirational Refuge

To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.

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