I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
TONI MORRISONFreedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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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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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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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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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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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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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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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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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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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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