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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.

Toni Morrison

I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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Choose Decision Discourage Safe Seldom Value Want
The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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Couple Friendship Gather Giving Love Pieces
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
Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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Deep Face Heart Inspirational One Liner Speak
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
I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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Break Strawberry Summer
There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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Civilization Despair Fear Healing Language Silence Time Writing
Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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Liberty Silence
He wants to put his story next to hers.
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Couple Love Story Want
We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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Freedom Leisure Passion Violence
In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Country White
Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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Black Lives Matter Music People
At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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Beautiful Enough Life World
Love is never any better than the lover.
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Love Lover
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
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

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