Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
TONI MORRISONYou have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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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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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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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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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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All important things are hard.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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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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