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1. black
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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.

Toni Morrison

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  Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.

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  There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

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  Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.

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  I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.

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  I get angry about things, then go on and work.

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