Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
TONI MORRISONBlack people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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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 wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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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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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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