Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
TONI MORRISONIt was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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What a woman. What a life.
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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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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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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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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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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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