Something that is loved is never lost.
TONI MORRISONLet your face speak what’s in your heart.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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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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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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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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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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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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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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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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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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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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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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