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1. black
2. grey
3. blue
4. red
5. brown
6. white

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

Toni Morrison

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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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  All art is knowing when to stop.

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  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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  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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  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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  Lonely was much better than alone.

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  Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.

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  Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.

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  In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.

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

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  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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  Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.

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  I type in one place, but I write all over the house.

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  I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.

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  A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.

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  Something that is loved is never lost.

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