My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
TONI MORRISONThe pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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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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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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You are your best thing.
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All important things are hard.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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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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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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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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Being able to laugh got me through.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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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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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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