The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
TONI MORRISONLet your face speak what’s in your heart.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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 dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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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 ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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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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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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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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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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I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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