I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
TONI MORRISONToday is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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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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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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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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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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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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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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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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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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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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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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I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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