She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
TONI MORRISONFrom my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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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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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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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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All art is knowing when to stop.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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You are your best thing.
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