We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
TONI MORRISONWhen 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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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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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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You are your best thing.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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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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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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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.
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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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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Lonely was much better than alone.
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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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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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