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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

Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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Deep Face Heart Inspirational One Liner Speak
As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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Dreams Inspirational Position Power Thinking
Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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Black Lives Matter Country People Power Prevent War
In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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Artist Choose Silence Time Work
Love is never any better than the lover.
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Love Lover
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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Choose Freedom Love Permission Place
The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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Dance Engagement Equality Open Minded Peace Thinking
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
Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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Love One Liner
In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Country White
At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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Beautiful Enough Life World
I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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Fall In Love Love One Liner Rose
There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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Construction Function Human Race Racism Social
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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Angry Aware Love Presence Reality Worth
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
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

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