It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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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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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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What a woman. What a life.
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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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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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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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You are your own stories.
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All important things are hard.
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