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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.

Toni Morrison

What a woman. What a life.
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Life Woman
All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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Allow Design Paradise People
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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Beautiful Black Lives Matter Complex Country History Impact Place
I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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Break Strawberry Summer
If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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Black Lives Matter People Problem Racism Serious
I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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Fall In Love Love One Liner Rose
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
We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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Freedom Leisure Passion Violence
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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Kindness Ourselves Sister Special
Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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Disappear Happen Money People Profit Psychology Racism
Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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Beautiful Women
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
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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Choose Decision Discourage Safe Seldom Value Want
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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Difficult Except Handle Inspirational Refuge
You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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Attitude Inspirational People Rely Tough Yourself
Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
TONI MORRISON

Love One Liner

Passion is never enough; neither is skill.

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