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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.

Toni Morrison

A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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Friendship Giving Pieces
The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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Couple Friendship Gather Giving Love Pieces
Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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Art Beautiful Circumstance Invitation Tragic
Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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Couple Future Kindness Past Relationship
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
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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Civilization Despair Fear Healing Language Silence Time Writing
If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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Book Reading Want
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
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
As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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Dreams Inspirational Position Power Thinking
Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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Man People Safe Stupidity Violence Weakness Wicked
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
The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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Concept Enemy Men World
All important things are hard.
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Entrepreneur Important Inspirational One Liner Work Hard
When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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Children Look Room Walk
Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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Disperate Mystery Problem Sweet Thinking Writing

Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.

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