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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.

Toni Morrison

You are your own stories.
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Deep One Liner Story
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
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
From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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Chance Destiny Inspirational Life Miracle Shape Wait
Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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Action Book Change Knowledge Mind Political Reflection
Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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Art Life Wait
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
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.
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Man People Safe Stupidity Violence Weakness Wicked
I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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Children Need Parents Raise Thinking Village
Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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Couple Future Kindness Past Relationship
But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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Die Dreamer Dreams Finding Truth 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
Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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Artist Danger She Women
To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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Choose Freedom Love Permission Place
Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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Change Inspirtional Passion Skill
At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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Beautiful Enough Life World

Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.

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