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1. black
2. grey
3. blue
4. red
5. brown
6. white

What a woman. What a life.

Toni Morrison

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  When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.

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  What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?

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  Anything dead coming back to life hurts.

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  Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.

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

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  I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.

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  Lonely was much better than alone.

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