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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.

Toni Morrison

A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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Friendship Giving Pieces
Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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Man People Safe Stupidity Violence Weakness Wicked
Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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Liberty Silence
I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Angry Work
Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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Art Beautiful Circumstance Invitation Tragic
I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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Break Strawberry Summer
You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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Fly Freedom Give Up Let Go Shit Weigh
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
Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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Beautiful Women
When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Broken Heart Pain Sad Suffering
Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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Choose Freedom Responsiblity Want
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
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
What a woman. What a life.
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Life Woman
Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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Knowledge Language Limitation Oppressive Represent Violence
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

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