I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
TONI MORRISONThere 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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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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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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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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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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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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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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