You are your best thing.
TONI MORRISONWhen there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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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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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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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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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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All important things are hard.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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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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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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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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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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