I get angry about things, then go on and work.
TONI MORRISONLet your face speak what’s in your heart.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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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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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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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 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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You are your best thing.
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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