You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
TONI MORRISONLet your face speak what’s in your heart.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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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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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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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’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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All important things are hard.
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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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What a woman. What a life.
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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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