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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.

Toni Morrison

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
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
You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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Attitude Inspirational People Rely Tough Yourself
There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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Art Beginning Civilization Dance Painting
I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Angry Work
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
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
All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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Allow Design Paradise People
Something that is loved is never lost.
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Deep Inspirational Lost Love One Liner
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
In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Country White
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
Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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Deep Face Heart Inspirational One Liner Speak
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
Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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Beg Deep Inspirational Love Self Respect
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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Die Inspirational Language Life Live Measure

Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.

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