There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
TONI MORRISONA dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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All important things are hard.
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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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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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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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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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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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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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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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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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