Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
TONI MORRISONAt some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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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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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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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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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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All important things are hard.
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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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