She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
TONI MORRISONMisery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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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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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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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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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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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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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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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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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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All important things are hard.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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