When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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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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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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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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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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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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What a woman. What a life.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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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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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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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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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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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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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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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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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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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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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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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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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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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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