You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
TONI MORRISONWhen there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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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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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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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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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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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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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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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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All important things are hard.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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