I get angry about things, then go on and work.
TONI MORRISONAnd I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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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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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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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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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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You are your best thing.
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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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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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