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The 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.

Toni Morrison

To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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Choose Freedom Love Permission Place
He wants to put his story next to hers.
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Couple Love Story Want
I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
TONI MORRISON

Break Strawberry Summer
What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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Success Want World
Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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Black Lives Matter Crime Live Racism Traget
What a woman. What a life.
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Life Woman
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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Children Look Room Walk
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
All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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Deep Forever Inspirational Memories Memory Water
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
Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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Art Life Wait
The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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Ability Imagination Power Strange Writing
The 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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Concept Enemy Men World
I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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Book Dominant Life Spend Try White Writing
You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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Attitude Inspirational People Rely Tough Yourself
All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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Allow Design Paradise People

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