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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.

Toni Morrison

When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
TONI MORRISON

Broken Heart Pain Sad Suffering
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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Difficult Except Handle Inspirational Refuge
Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
TONI MORRISON

Feeling Safe Writing
All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
TONI MORRISON

Deep Forever Inspirational Memories Memory Water
The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
TONI MORRISON

Art Beautiful Politics Time
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.
TONI MORRISON

Man People Safe Stupidity Violence Weakness Wicked
Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
TONI MORRISON

Awake Door Misery Walk
Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
TONI MORRISON

Black Lives Matter Crime Live Racism Traget
Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
TONI MORRISON

Black Lives Matter Music People
Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
TONI MORRISON

Claim Freedom Ownership Yourself
To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
TONI MORRISON

Choose Freedom Love Permission Place
You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
TONI MORRISON

Freedom Inspirational Obligation Save
And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
TONI MORRISON

Cool Love Number Play Self Love Silence Water Wine
All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
TONI MORRISON

Allow Design Paradise People
It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
TONI MORRISON

Break Up Broken Heart Fortune Leaving Missing Sheer
There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
TONI MORRISON

Amount Black Lives Matter Magic Men

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