Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
TONI MORRISONBlack women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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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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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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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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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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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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Love is never any better than the lover.
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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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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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All important things are hard.
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