When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
TONI MORRISONLet your face speak what’s in your heart.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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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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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 have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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You are your best thing.
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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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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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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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