I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
TONI MORRISONWicked 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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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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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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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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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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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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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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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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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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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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