I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
TONI MORRISONThere’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 women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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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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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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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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You are your best thing.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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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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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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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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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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