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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.

Toni Morrison

A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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Friendship Giving Pieces
I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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Black Lives Matter People Speak Want
Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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Art Life Wait
Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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Beautiful Women
Love is never any better than the lover.
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Love Lover
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
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
As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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Dreams Inspirational Position Power Thinking
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
Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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Black Lives Matter Music People
We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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Freedom Leisure Passion Violence
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
Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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Disappear Happen Money People Profit Psychology Racism
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
Lonely was much better than alone.
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Alone Loneliness One Liner Sad
He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
TONI MORRISON

Value Women Yourself

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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