A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
TONI MORRISONToday is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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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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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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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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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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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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