Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
TONI MORRISONPassion is never enough; neither is skill.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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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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What a woman. What a life.
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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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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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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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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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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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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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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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