For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
TONI MORRISONLove is never any better than the lover.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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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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Love is never any better than the lover.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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You are your best thing.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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