I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
TONI MORRISONIf you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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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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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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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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