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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

Toni Morrison

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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Die Inspirational Language Life Live Measure
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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Knowledge Language Limitation Oppressive Represent Violence
All art is knowing when to stop.
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Art Inspirational One Liner Stop
A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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Friendship Giving Pieces
If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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Book Writing
I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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Comfortable Help Talent Teaching Writing
At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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Beautiful Enough Life World
I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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House Place Writing
I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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Book Excitement Want Writing
He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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Value Women Yourself
The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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Art Beautiful Politics Time
But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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Die Dreamer Dreams Finding Truth World
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
Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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Black Lives Matter Crime Live Racism Traget
There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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Art Beginning Civilization Dance Painting

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