And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
TONI MORRISONAll important things are hard.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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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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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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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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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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