Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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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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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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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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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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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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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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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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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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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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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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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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All important things are hard.
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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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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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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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