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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

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
I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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Believe Confidence Ending Inspirational Start
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
As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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Dreams Inspirational Position Power Thinking
We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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Freedom Leisure Passion Violence
Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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Disperate Mystery Problem Sweet Thinking Writing
But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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Die Dreamer Dreams Finding Truth World
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
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
Something that is loved is never lost.
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Deep Inspirational Lost Love One Liner
Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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Artist Danger She Women
If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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Black Lives Matter People Problem Racism Serious
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
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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Cool Love Number Play Self Love Silence Water Wine
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
When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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Children Look Room 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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