There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
TONI MORRISONMy theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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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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Being able to laugh got me through.
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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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You are your own stories.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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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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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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