A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
TONI MORRISONA dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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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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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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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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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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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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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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