All important things are hard.
TONI MORRISONAnger 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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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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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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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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What a woman. What a life.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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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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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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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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