I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
TONI MORRISONAt some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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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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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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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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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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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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