All art is knowing when to stop.
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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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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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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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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All important things are hard.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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You are your own stories.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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