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.
TONI MORRISONI didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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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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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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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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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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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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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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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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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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You are your best thing.
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I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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All important things are hard.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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