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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

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
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
Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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Black Lives Matter Music People
Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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Art Life Wait
A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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Friendship Giving Pieces
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
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
I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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Black Lives Matter People Speak Want
Love is never any better than the lover.
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Love Lover
I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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House Place 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
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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Difficult Except Handle Inspirational Refuge
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
Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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Art Beautiful Circumstance Invitation Tragic
Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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Belong Business Defination Inspirational
Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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Beautiful Women

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