A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
TONI MORRISONAll art is knowing when to stop.
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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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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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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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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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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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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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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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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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