It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
TONI MORRISONAll important things are hard.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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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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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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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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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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All important things are hard.
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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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You are your best thing.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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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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What a woman. What a life.
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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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