Lonely was much better than alone.
TONI MORRISONA dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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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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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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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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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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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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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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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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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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Something that is loved is never lost.
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