Toni MorrisonLike any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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The woman without a man isn’t dangerous, but the one that has to create her own way of living, she becomes. If she chooses to live without a man, she becomes independent, but if she makes an art form out of it, she becomes dangerous.
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