Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
TONI MORRISONBeloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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You are your own stories.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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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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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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What a woman. What a life.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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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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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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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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