He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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What a woman. What a life.
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I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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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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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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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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