There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
TONI MORRISONBlack people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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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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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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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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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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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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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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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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