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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.

Toni Morrison

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
Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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Art Beautiful Circumstance Invitation Tragic
Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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Angry Aware Love Presence Reality Worth
You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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Freedom Inspirational Obligation Save
The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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Concept Enemy Men World
There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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Difference Hard Work Honesty Life Live Pay Writing
Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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Deep Face Heart Inspirational One Liner Speak
A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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Gift Life Mankind Necessary Work Writing
A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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Dreams Fashion Nightmare
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
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
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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Knowledge Language Limitation Oppressive Represent Violence
Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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Claim Freedom Ownership Yourself
As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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Dreams Inspirational Position Power 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
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.
TONI MORRISON

Children Look Room Walk

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