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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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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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Black Lives Matter Country People Power Prevent War
In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Country White
At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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Beautiful Enough Life World
Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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Future Inspirational Present
Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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Claim Freedom Ownership Yourself
I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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Black Lives Matter People Speak Want
Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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Love One Liner
Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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Change Inspirtional Passion Skill
Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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Interesting Male Navigate Threat White
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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Man People Safe Stupidity Violence Weakness Wicked
All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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Allow Design Paradise People
A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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Friendship Giving Pieces
We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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Freedom Leisure Passion Violence
I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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Fall In Love Love One Liner Rose
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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Circle Cry Loud Sad Sorrow
A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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Kindness Ourselves Sister Special
I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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Come Back Deep Dreams One Liner
Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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Black Lives Matter Each Other Friendship Women
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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Angry Aware Love Presence Reality Worth
Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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Break Up Broken Heart Fortune Leaving Missing Sheer
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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Book Reading Want
Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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Belong Business Defination Inspirational
Lonely was much better than alone.
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Alone Loneliness One Liner Sad
You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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Attitude Inspirational People Rely Tough Yourself
The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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Deep Inspirational Lost Love One Liner

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