All art is knowing when to stop.
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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All important things are hard.
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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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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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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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What a woman. What a life.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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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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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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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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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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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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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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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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You are your best thing.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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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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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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