All important things are hard.
TONI MORRISONA friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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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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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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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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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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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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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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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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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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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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