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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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  Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.

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  We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.

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  I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.

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  Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.

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  In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.

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  To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.

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  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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  And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.

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  Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.

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  I always know the ending; that’s where I start.

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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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  You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.

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  We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

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