Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
TONI MORRISONNavigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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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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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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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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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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What a woman. What a life.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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