The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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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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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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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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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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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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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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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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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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