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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.

Toni Morrison

For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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Beautiful Black Lives Matter Complex Country History Impact Place
Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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Knowledge Language Limitation Oppressive Represent Violence
Love is never any better than the lover.
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Love Lover
Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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Artist Danger She Women
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
He wants to put his story next to hers.
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Couple Love Story Want
In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Country White
Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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Change Inspirtional Passion Skill
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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Cool Love Number Play Self Love Silence Water Wine
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
Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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Black Lives Matter Each Other Friendship Women
Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
TONI MORRISON

Claim Freedom Ownership Yourself
There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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Difference Hard Work Honesty Life Live Pay 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
I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
TONI MORRISON

Break Strawberry Summer
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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Die Inspirational Language Life Live Measure

I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.

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