Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
TONI MORRISONFreedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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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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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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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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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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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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You are your best thing.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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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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