He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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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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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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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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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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 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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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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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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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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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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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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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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