A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
TONI MORRISONShe learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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All important things are hard.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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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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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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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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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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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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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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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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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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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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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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