Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
TONI MORRISON
The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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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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You are your own stories.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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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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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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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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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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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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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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