Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
TONI MORRISONLove is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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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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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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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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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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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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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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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 art is knowing when to stop.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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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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