It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
TONI MORRISONBut to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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What a woman. What a life.
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All important things are hard.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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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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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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You are your best thing.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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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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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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