You are your best thing.
TONI MORRISONBeing able to laugh got me through.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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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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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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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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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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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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