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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?

Toni Morrison

Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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Choose Freedom Responsiblity Want
The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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Ability Imagination Power Strange Writing
The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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Concept Enemy Men World
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
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 Beautiful Politics Time
He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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Value Women Yourself
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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Cool Love Number Play Self Love Silence Water Wine
A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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Gift Life Mankind Necessary Work Writing
Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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Deep Face Heart Inspirational One Liner Speak
What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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Success Want World
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
She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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Colour Horror Learning Loneliness She
All art is knowing when to stop.
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Art Inspirational One Liner Stop
You are your own stories.
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Deep One Liner Story
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
Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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Action Book Change Knowledge Mind Political Reflection

Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?

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