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Toni Morrison

Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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Love One Liner
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
He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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Value Women Yourself
You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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Freedom Inspirational Obligation Save
The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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Concept Enemy Men World
Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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Black Lives Matter Country People Power Prevent War
Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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Action Book Change Knowledge Mind Political Reflection
You are your own stories.
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Deep One Liner Story
We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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Freedom Leisure Passion Violence
Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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Beloved Daughter Face Myself Self Love Sister Women
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
She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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Colour Horror Learning Loneliness She
A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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Kindness Ourselves Sister Special
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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Awake Door Misery Walk
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
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

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