There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
TONI MORRISONMe and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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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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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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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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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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