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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.

Toni Morrison

There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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Civilization Despair Fear Healing Language Silence Time Writing
Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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Liberty Silence
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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Colour Horror Learning Loneliness She
Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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Love One Liner
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
I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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Children Need Parents Raise Thinking Village
There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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Art Beginning Civilization Dance Painting
Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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Black Lives Matter Country People Power Prevent War
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
Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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Belong Business Defination Inspirational
A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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Kindness Ourselves Sister Special
Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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Disperate Mystery Problem Sweet Thinking Writing
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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Circle Cry Loud Sad Sorrow
Love is never any better than the lover.
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Love Lover
The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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Freedom Function Inspirational Peace Positive
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

Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.

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