To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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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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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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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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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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