As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
TONI MORRISONThe 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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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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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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Something that is loved is never lost.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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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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Lonely was much better than alone.
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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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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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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You are your best thing.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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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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