Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
TONI MORRISONWhat’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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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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Love is never any better than the lover.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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What a woman. What a life.
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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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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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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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