The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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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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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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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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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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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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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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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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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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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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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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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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