We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
TONI MORRISONThe peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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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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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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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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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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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 there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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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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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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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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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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