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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

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
It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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Circle Cry Loud Sad Sorrow
Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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Black Lives Matter Country People Power Prevent War
She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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Colour Horror Learning Loneliness She
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
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
When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Broken Heart Pain Sad Suffering
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
I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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House Place Writing
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
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
All important things are hard.
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Entrepreneur Important Inspirational One Liner Work Hard
Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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Love One Liner
Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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Artist Danger She Women
The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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Couple Friendship Gather Giving Love Pieces
Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
TONI MORRISON

Liberty Silence

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

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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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