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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.

Toni Morrison

Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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Feeling Safe Writing
If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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Air Inspirational One Liner Ride Surrender
Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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Awake Door Misery Walk
There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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Difference Hard Work Honesty Life Live Pay Writing
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
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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Disappear Happen Money People Profit Psychology Racism
I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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Believe Confidence Ending Inspirational Start
Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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Love One Liner
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
Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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Future Inspirational Present
Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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Black Lives Matter Each Other Friendship Women
Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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Art Life Wait
If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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Book Reading Want
You are your best thing.
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Couple Inspirational One Liner Positive Valentine
When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Broken Heart Pain Sad Suffering
Lonely was much better than alone.
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Alone Loneliness One Liner Sad

You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.

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