My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
TONI MORRISONMake a difference about something other than yourselves.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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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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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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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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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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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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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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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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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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