If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
TONI MORRISONFreedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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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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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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What a woman. What a life.
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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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All important things are hard.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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