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

Toni Morrison

A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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Friendship Giving Pieces
Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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Liberty Silence
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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Artist Choose Silence Time Work
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
Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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Feeling Safe Writing
He wants to put his story next to hers.
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Couple Love Story Want
Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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Black Lives Matter Crime Live Racism Traget
What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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Success Want World
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
The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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Freedom Function Inspirational Peace Positive
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
What a woman. What a life.
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Life Woman
The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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Couple Friendship Gather Giving Love Pieces
I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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House Place Writing
Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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Love One Liner
Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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Man People Safe Stupidity Violence Weakness Wicked

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

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