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1. black
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6. white

Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.

Toni Morrison

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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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  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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  Passion is never enough; neither is skill.

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  I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.

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  When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.

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  I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.

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  For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.

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  A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.

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  Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.

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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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  Anything dead coming back to life hurts.

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  Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.

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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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  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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  The function of freedom is to free someone else.

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