When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
TONI MORRISONBeing able to laugh got me through.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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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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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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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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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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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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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.
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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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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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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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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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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