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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.

Toni Morrison

From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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Chance Destiny Inspirational Life Miracle Shape Wait
I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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Come Back Deep Dreams One Liner
To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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Choose Freedom Love Permission Place
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
All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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Allow Design Paradise People
The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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Dance Engagement Equality Open Minded Peace Thinking
If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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Black Lives Matter People Problem Racism Serious
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
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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Amount Black Lives Matter Magic Men
Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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Art Life Wait
For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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Beautiful Black Lives Matter Complex Country History Impact Place
My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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Difficult Distraction Game Theory World
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
Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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Interesting Male Navigate Threat White
At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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Beautiful Enough Life World
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

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