Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
TONI MORRISONI dream a dream that dreams back at me.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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You are your own stories.
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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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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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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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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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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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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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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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