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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.

Toni Morrison

A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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Kindness Ourselves Sister Special
Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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Interesting Male Navigate Threat White
All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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Allow Design Paradise People
Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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Black Lives Matter Music People
Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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Disperate Mystery Problem Sweet Thinking Writing
You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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Alone Children Community Mother Raise Women Empowerment
I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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Book Dominant Life Spend Try White Writing
Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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Belong Business Defination Inspirational
It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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Circle Cry Loud Sad Sorrow
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
Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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Man People Safe Stupidity Violence Weakness Wicked
Anger 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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Angry Aware Love Presence Reality Worth
Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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Art Life Wait
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
He wants to put his story next to hers.
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Couple Love Story Want
I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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Book Excitement Want Writing

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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