Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
TONI MORRISONBeing able to laugh got me through.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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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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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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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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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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What a woman. What a life.
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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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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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