He wants to put his story next to hers.
TONI MORRISONI dream a dream that dreams back at me.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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What a woman. What a life.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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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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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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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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