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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.

Toni Morrison

Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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Change Inspirtional Passion Skill
You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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Alone Children Community Mother Raise Women Empowerment
Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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Come Back Dead Deep Hurt Life
Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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Human Life Perhaps Relationship Save
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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Art Beautiful Politics Time
Something that is loved is never lost.
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Deep Inspirational Lost Love One Liner
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
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
The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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Freedom Function Inspirational Peace Positive
A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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Friendship Giving Pieces
It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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Break Up Broken Heart Fortune Leaving Missing Sheer
Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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Awake Door Misery Walk
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
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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Children Look Room Walk
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
The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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Ability Imagination Power Strange Writing

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