There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
TONI MORRISONWhen there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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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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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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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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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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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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