I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
TONI MORRISONIt is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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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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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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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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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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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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