Love is never any better than the lover.
TONI MORRISONBlack people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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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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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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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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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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