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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.

Toni Morrison

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
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
Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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Come Back Dead Deep Hurt Life
If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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Book Writing
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
I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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Break Strawberry Summer
Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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Knowledge Language Limitation Oppressive Represent Violence
You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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Alone Children Community Mother Raise Women Empowerment
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
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
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
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
Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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Black Lives Matter Music People
The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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Dance Engagement Equality Open Minded Peace Thinking
There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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Art Beginning Civilization Dance Painting
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

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