A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
TONI MORRISONIf you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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All important things are hard.
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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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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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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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You are your best thing.
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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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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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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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