It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
TONI MORRISONBeing able to laugh got me through.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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What a woman. What a life.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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You are your own stories.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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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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