Being able to laugh got me through.
TONI MORRISONYou free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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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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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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What a woman. What a life.
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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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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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