Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
TONI MORRISONWhen there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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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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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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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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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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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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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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