She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
TONI MORRISONLike any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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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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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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You are your best thing.
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I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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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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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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You are your own stories.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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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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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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