Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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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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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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