Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
TONI MORRISONBeloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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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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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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You are your best thing.
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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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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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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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