Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
TONI MORRISONIf 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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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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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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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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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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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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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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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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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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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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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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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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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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