She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
TONI MORRISONA dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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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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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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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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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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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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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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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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