What a woman. What a life.
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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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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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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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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You are your own stories.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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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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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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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.
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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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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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