Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
TONI MORRISONYou wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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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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Lonely was much better than alone.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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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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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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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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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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