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.
TONI MORRISONIn this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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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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What a woman. What a life.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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You are your best thing.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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You are your own stories.
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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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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 really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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