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At some point in life the wor...

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. No record of it needs to be kept and you don't need someone to share it with or tell it to. When that happens — that letting go — you let go because you can.

Toni Morrison 445 quotes

She was the third beer. Not t...

She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the one you drink because it's there, because it can't hurt, and because what difference does it make?

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Race is the least reliable in...

Race is the least reliable information you can have about someone. It's real information, but it tells you next to nothing.

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It was a fine cry - loud and ...

It was a fine cry - loud and long - but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.

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The past is interesting to me...

The past is interesting to me because it's been dumbed down or flattened out, or academically nitpicked so you can't get any life out of it, you just get data.

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True the Black woman did the ...

True the Black woman did the housework, the drudgery; true, she reared the children, often alone, but she did all of that while occupying a place on the job market, a place her mate could not get or which his pride would not let him accept.And she had nothing to fall back on: not maleness, not whiteness, not ladyhood, not anything. And out of the profound desolation of her reality she may very well have invented herself.

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Writing is really a way of th...

Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.

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Wait, wait, wait, wait. Don't...

Wait, wait, wait, wait. Don't try to write through it, to force it. Many do, but that won't work. Just wait, it will come.

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One has to work very carefull...

One has to work very carefully with what is in between the words. What is not said. Which is measure, which is rhythm and so on. So, it is what you don't write that frequently gives what you do write its power.

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I don't know whether the bird...

I don't know whether the bird you are holding is dead or alive, but what I do know is that it is in your hands. It is in your hands.

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Evil is not interesting. What...

Evil is not interesting. What is it, chopping off someone's head? We used to do that as kids, you know, you tear up paper dolls and stuff. I know everyone's done it in the history of the world, but maybe everybody was dumb and they were just looking for something interesting to do. What's really interesting and hard is being good.

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A sister can be seen as someo...

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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I don't think one parent can ...

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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I know there's some poetry th...

I know there's some poetry that sort of sounds like daisies, but most of the good poetry is also [political], you can feel the heartbeat; it's about some situation that concerns human beings under duress. It's suggesting a solution, or just acknowledging that [the situation] exists. Art does that.

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A dream is just a nightmare w...

A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.

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Love it, love it and the beat...

Love it, love it and the beat and beating heart, love that too. More than eyes or feet. More than lungs that have yet to draw free air. More than your life-holding womb and your life-giving private parts, hear me now, love your heart. For this is the prize.

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I merged those two words, bla...

I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes.

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There is really nothing more ...

There is really nothing more to say - except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.

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If there is a book that you w...

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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If you surrendered to the air...

If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.

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