Lonely was much better than alone.
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 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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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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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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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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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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