Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
TONI MORRISONAll art is knowing when to stop.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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You are your best thing.
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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What a woman. What a life.
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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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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in 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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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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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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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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