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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.

Toni Morrison

In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Country White
He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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Value Women Yourself
Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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Black Lives Matter Music People
Lonely was much better than alone.
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Alone Loneliness One Liner Sad
Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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Black Lives Matter Country People Power Prevent War
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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Amount Black Lives Matter Magic Men
There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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Difference Hard Work Honesty Life Live Pay Writing
The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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Freedom Function Inspirational Peace Positive
Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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Art Life Wait
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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Artist Choose Silence Time Work
Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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Choose Freedom Responsiblity Want
Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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Couple Future Kindness Past Relationship
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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Angry Aware Love Presence Reality Worth
At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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Beautiful Enough Life World
There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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Art Beginning Civilization Dance Painting
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

A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.

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