In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
TONI MORRISONThe 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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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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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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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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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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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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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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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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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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