She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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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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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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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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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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All important things are hard.
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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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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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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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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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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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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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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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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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