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#1

“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”
― Ayn Rand

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#2

“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

tags: burdens, empowerment, flying, freedom, unburdening, weight

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#3

“Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

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#4

“Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.”
― Toni Morrison, Sula

tags: art

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#5

“In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.”
― Toni Morrison

tags: bigotry, politics, racism

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#6

“You are your best thing”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

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#7

“What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?”
― Toni Morrison

tags: fear, inspiration

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#8

“If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

tags: inspirational

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#9

“Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

tags: change

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#10

“DNA has memory!”
― Isaiah Washington, A Man from Another Land: How Finding My Roots Changed My Life

tags: african-american, dna, history, science

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#11

“I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: 1997, annie-clark-tanner-lecture

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#12

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
― Maya Angelou

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#13

“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: courage, love, trust

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#14

“Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.”
― Maya Angelou

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#15

“Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.”
― Richard Wright, Native Son

tags: self-realization

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#16

“Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.”
― Richard Wright, Black Boy

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#17

“All literature is protest.”
― Richard Wright

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#18

“In order to rise
From its own ashes
A phoenix
First
Must
Burn.”
― Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents

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#19

“All that you touch
You Change.

All that you Change
Changes you.

The only lasting truth
is Change.

God
is Change.”
― Octavia E. Butler

tags: change, god

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#20

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin

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#21

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
― James Baldwin

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#22

“Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be”
― James Baldwin

tags: freedom, liberty

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