All important things are hard.
TONI MORRISONWhat’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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What a woman. What a life.
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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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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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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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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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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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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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