Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
TONI MORRISONThere 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.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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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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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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You are your best thing.
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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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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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What a woman. What a life.
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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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