When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
TONI MORRISONWhen there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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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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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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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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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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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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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 people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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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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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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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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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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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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