A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
TONI MORRISONTo 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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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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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.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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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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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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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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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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