Being able to laugh got me through.
TONI MORRISONBlack people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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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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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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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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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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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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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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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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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 best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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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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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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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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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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