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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.

Toni Morrison

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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Artist Choose Silence Time Work
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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Angry Aware Love Presence Reality Worth
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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Difficult Distraction Game Theory World
All art is knowing when to stop.
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Art Inspirational One Liner Stop
I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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Fall In Love Love One Liner Rose
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
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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Die Inspirational Language Life Live Measure
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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Concept Enemy Men World
If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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Book Reading Want
I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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Children Need Parents Raise Thinking Village
Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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Art Life Wait
The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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Art Beautiful Politics Time
Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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Liberty Silence
Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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Black Lives Matter Music People
Lonely was much better than alone.
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Alone Loneliness One Liner Sad
Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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Artist Danger She Women

Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.

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