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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

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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Cool Love Number Play Self Love Silence Water Wine
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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Difficult Distraction Game Theory World
Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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Claim Freedom Ownership Yourself
Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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Interesting Male Navigate Threat White
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
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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Angry Aware Love Presence Reality Worth
Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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Human Life Perhaps Relationship Save
Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Literature One Liner Wisdom
In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Country White
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
Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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Future Inspirational Present
We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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Freedom Leisure Passion Violence
I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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Believe Confidence Ending Inspirational Start
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
Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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Black Lives Matter Each Other Friendship Women
I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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Break Strawberry Summer

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

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