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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.

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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Literature One Liner Wisdom
I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Angry Work
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
From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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Black Lives Matter Music People
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
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
If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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Book Reading Want
Something that is loved is never lost.
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Deep Inspirational Lost Love One Liner
You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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Attitude Inspirational People Rely Tough Yourself
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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Art Beautiful Politics Time
All important things are hard.
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Entrepreneur Important Inspirational One Liner Work Hard
I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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Book Excitement Want Writing
Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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Change Inspirtional Passion Skill
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
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
The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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Couple Friendship Gather Giving Love Pieces
Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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Human Life Perhaps Relationship Save
In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Country White
I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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House Place Writing
Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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Beloved Daughter Face Myself Self Love Sister Women
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
You are your own stories.
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Deep One Liner Story
If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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Black Lives Matter People Problem Racism Serious
You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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Love Self Respect Women Empowerment
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
We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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Freedom Leisure Passion Violence

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