Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
TONI MORRISONWhen there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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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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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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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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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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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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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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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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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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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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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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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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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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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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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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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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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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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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Being able to laugh got me through.
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