Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
TONI MORRISONFor me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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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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All art is knowing when to stop.
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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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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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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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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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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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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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