Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
TONI MORRISONThere 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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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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What a woman. What a life.
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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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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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Lonely was much better than alone.
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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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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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