Love is never any better than the lover.
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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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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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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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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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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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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Being able to laugh got me through.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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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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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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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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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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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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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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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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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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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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