Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
TONI MORRISONLove is never any better than the lover.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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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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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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You are your own stories.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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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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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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