The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
TONI MORRISONPassion is never enough; neither is skill.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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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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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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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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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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Lonely was much better than alone.
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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What a woman. What a life.
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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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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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