Love is never any better than the lover.
TONI MORRISONLiberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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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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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 sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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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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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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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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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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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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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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You are your best thing.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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