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

Toni Morrison

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
I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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Children Need Parents Raise Thinking Village
From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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Chance Destiny Inspirational Life Miracle Shape Wait
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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Children Look Room Walk
Lonely was much better than alone.
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Alone Loneliness One Liner Sad
I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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Break Strawberry Summer
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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Artist Choose Silence Time Work
Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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Liberty Silence
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
There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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Amount Black Lives Matter Magic Men
I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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Comfortable Help Talent Teaching Writing
She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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Colour Horror Learning Loneliness She
You are your own stories.
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Deep One Liner Story
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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Book Writing
Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Literature One Liner Wisdom
The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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Ability Imagination Power Strange Writing

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

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