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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.

Toni Morrison

Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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Art Life Wait
I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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Book Excitement Want Writing
Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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Belong Business Defination Inspirational
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
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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Die Inspirational Language Life Live Measure
Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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Beloved Daughter Face Myself Self Love Sister Women
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
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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Artist Choose Silence Time Work
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
If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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Book Writing
I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Angry Work
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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Difficult Except Handle Inspirational Refuge
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
Lonely was much better than alone.
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Alone Loneliness One Liner Sad
Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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Feeling Safe Writing
You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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Alone Children Community Mother Raise Women Empowerment

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