She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
TONI MORRISONI dream a dream that dreams back at me.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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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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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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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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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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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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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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