When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
TONI MORRISONAll important things are hard.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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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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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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