The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
TONI MORRISONWhen there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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All important things are hard.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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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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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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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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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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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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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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