If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
TONI MORRISONIn times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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You are your best thing.
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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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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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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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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 people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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What a woman. What a life.
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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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