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.
TONI MORRISONMake a difference about something other than yourselves.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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What a woman. What a life.
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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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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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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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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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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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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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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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