It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
TONI MORRISONAnd I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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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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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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You are your own stories.
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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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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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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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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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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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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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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