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1. black
2. grey
3. blue
4. red
5. brown
6. white

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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  Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.

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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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  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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  A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.

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  At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.

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  You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.

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  For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.

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  It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.

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  Love is never any better than the lover.

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  Passion is never enough; neither is skill.

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  She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.

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  Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.

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  Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.

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  Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.

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