Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
TONI MORRISONBlack people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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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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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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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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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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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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What a woman. What a life.
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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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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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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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