Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
TONI MORRISONAt some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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All important things are hard.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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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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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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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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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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