We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
TONI MORRISONMy theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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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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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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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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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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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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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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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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