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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.

Toni Morrison

If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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Book Reading Want
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
Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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Interesting Male Navigate Threat White
From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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Chance Destiny Inspirational Life Miracle Shape Wait
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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Feeling Safe Writing
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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Colour Horror Learning Loneliness She
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
You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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Love Self Respect Women Empowerment
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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Kindness Ourselves Sister Special
Lonely was much better than alone.
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Alone Loneliness One Liner Sad
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
But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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Die Dreamer Dreams Finding Truth World
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
All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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Allow Design Paradise People
He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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Value Women Yourself
Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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Future Inspirational Present

Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.

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