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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.

Toni Morrison

All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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Allow Design Paradise People
Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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Claim Freedom Ownership Yourself
A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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Friendship Giving Pieces
Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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Choose Freedom Responsiblity Want
Love is never any better than the lover.
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Love Lover
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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Black Lives Matter People Speak Want
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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Disperate Mystery Problem Sweet Thinking Writing
I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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Book Dominant Life Spend Try White Writing
You are your best thing.
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Couple Inspirational One Liner Positive Valentine
The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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Concept Enemy Men World
To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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Choose Freedom Love Permission Place
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
You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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Love Self Respect Women Empowerment
At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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Beautiful Enough Life World
The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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Ability Imagination Power Strange Writing
You are your own stories.
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Deep One Liner Story

But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.

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