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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.

Toni Morrison

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
In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Country White
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
You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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Love Self Respect Women Empowerment
A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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Gift Life Mankind Necessary Work Writing
I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Angry Work
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
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
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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Black Lives Matter People Problem Racism Serious
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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Difference Hard Work Honesty Life Live Pay Writing
What a woman. What a life.
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Life Woman
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.
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Ability Imagination Power Strange Writing
Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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Awake Door Misery Walk
Love is never any better than the lover.
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Love Lover
What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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Success Want World
Lonely was much better than alone.
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Alone Loneliness One Liner Sad

Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.

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