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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

A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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Dreams Fashion Nightmare
Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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Human Life Perhaps Relationship Save
Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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Disappear Happen Money People Profit Psychology Racism
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
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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Choose Decision Discourage Safe Seldom Value Want
There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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Difference Hard Work Honesty Life Live Pay Writing
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
Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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Love One Liner
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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Beautiful Black Lives Matter Complex Country History Impact Place
The 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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Art Beautiful Politics Time
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
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
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
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
When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Broken Heart Pain Sad Suffering
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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