Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
TONI MORRISONI always know the ending; that’s where I start.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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What a woman. What a life.
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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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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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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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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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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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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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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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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All art is knowing when to stop.
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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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