The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
TONI MORRISONThe peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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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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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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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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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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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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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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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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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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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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