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.
TONI MORRISONA friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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What a woman. What a life.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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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 get angry about things, then go on and work.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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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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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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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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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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