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.
TONI MORRISONBlack people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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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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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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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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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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