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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.

Toni Morrison

To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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Choose Freedom Love Permission Place
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
Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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Art Life Wait
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
The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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Art Beautiful Politics Time
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
Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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Human Life Perhaps Relationship Save
He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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Value Women Yourself
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
Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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Claim Freedom Ownership Yourself
At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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Beautiful Enough Life World
I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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House Place Writing
The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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Dance Engagement Equality Open Minded Peace Thinking
Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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Beloved Daughter Face Myself Self Love Sister Women
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
Love is never any better than the lover.
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Love Lover

I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.

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