And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
TONI MORRISON
You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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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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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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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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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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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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All important things are hard.
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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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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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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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Lonely was much better than alone.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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