All art is knowing when to stop.
TONI MORRISONThe 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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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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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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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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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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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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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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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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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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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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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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