My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
TONI MORRISONWe mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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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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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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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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What a woman. What a life.
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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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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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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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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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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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