Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
TONI MORRISONA sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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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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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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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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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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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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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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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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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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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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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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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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