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

Toni Morrison

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
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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Construction Function Human Race Racism Social
Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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Beautiful Women
You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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Alone Children Community Mother Raise Women Empowerment
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
I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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Book Excitement Want Writing
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
There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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Difficult Except Handle Inspirational Refuge
Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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Belong Business Defination Inspirational
Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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Artist Danger She Women
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
If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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Air Inspirational One Liner Ride Surrender
Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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Human Life Perhaps Relationship Save
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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Circle Cry Loud Sad Sorrow
We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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Freedom Leisure Passion Violence
Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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Black Lives Matter Each Other Friendship Women

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

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