Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
TONI MORRISON
You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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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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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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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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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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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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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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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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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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You are your own stories.
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What a woman. What a life.
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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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