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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.

Toni Morrison

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
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
In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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Artist Choose Silence Time Work
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
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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Disperate Mystery Problem Sweet Thinking Writing
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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Difficult Except Handle Inspirational Refuge
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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Die Inspirational Language Life Live Measure
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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Amount Black Lives Matter Magic Men
In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Country White
But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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Die Dreamer Dreams Finding Truth World
Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Literature One Liner Wisdom
I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Angry Work
Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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Beg Deep Inspirational Love Self Respect
When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Broken Heart Pain Sad Suffering
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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Construction Function Human Race Racism Social
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

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