A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
TONI MORRISONLike any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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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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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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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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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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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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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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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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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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