There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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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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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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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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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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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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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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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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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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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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