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Toni Morrison

Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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Claim Freedom Ownership Yourself
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
When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Broken Heart Pain Sad Suffering
All art is knowing when to stop.
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Art Inspirational One Liner Stop
Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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Interesting Male Navigate Threat White
I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Angry Work
Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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Angry Aware Love Presence Reality Worth
There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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Civilization Despair Fear Healing Language Silence Time Writing
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
Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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Choose Freedom Responsiblity Want
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
I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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Choose Decision Discourage Safe Seldom Value Want
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
I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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Book Excitement Want Writing
Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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Artist Danger She Women
All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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Deep Forever Inspirational Memories Memory Water

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