When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
TONI MORRISONAt some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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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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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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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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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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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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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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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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