Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
TONI MORRISONBooks are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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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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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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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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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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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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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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