When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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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Lonely was much better than alone.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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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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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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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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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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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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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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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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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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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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