Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
TONI MORRISONFor me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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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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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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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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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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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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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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What a woman. What a life.
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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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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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.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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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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