Love is never any better than the lover.
TONI MORRISONAnything dead coming back to life hurts.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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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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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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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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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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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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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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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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