You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect 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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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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What a woman. What a life.
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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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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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