There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
TONI MORRISONThere 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.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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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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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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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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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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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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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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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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