A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
TONI MORRISONLiberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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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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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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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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All important things are hard.
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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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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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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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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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