I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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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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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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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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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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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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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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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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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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