Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
TONI MORRISONAnd I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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You are your best thing.
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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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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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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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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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