There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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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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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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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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Lonely was much better than alone.
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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All important things are hard.
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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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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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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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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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