We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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You are your own stories.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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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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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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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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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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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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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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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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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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