Something that is loved is never lost.
TONI MORRISONA dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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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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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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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 peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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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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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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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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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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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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