From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
TONI MORRISONYou wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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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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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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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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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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All important things are hard.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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What a woman. What a life.
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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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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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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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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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