There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
TONI MORRISONIt is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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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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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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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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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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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You are your own stories.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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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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All art is knowing when to stop.
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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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