When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
TONI MORRISONPerhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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You are your best thing.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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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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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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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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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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