Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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You are your own stories.
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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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Love is never any better than the lover.
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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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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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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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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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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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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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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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