Lonely was much better than alone.
TONI MORRISONBooks are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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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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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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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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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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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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