She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
TONI MORRISONBut to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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You are your best thing.
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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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Being able to laugh got me through.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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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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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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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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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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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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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 don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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