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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.

Toni Morrison

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
Love is never any better than the lover.
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Love Lover
Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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Awake Door Misery Walk
The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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Couple Friendship Gather Giving Love Pieces
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
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
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
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
Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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Beg Deep Inspirational Love Self Respect
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
A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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Friendship Giving Pieces
Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Literature One Liner Wisdom
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
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
He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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Value Women Yourself
Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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Black Lives Matter Music People

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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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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