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.
TONI MORRISONBooks are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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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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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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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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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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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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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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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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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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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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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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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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