Something that is loved is never lost.
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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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect 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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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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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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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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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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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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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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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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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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