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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.

Toni Morrison

I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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Comfortable Help Talent Teaching Writing
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
It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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Break Up Broken Heart Fortune Leaving Missing Sheer
Being able to laugh got me through.
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Inspirational Laugh One Liner Positive
I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Angry Work
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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Children Look Room Walk
At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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Beautiful Enough Life World
You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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Fly Freedom Give Up Let Go Shit Weigh
Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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Art Beautiful Circumstance Invitation Tragic
There 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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Construction Function Human Race Racism Social
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
There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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Difficult Except Handle Inspirational Refuge
Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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Knowledge Language Limitation Oppressive Represent Violence
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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Book Writing
If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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Black Lives Matter People Problem Racism Serious
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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Amount Black Lives Matter Magic Men

When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.

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