When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
TONI MORRISONAll art is knowing when to stop.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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What a woman. What a life.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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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 function of freedom is to free someone else.
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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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