Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
TONI MORRISONI get angry about things, then go on and work.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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All important things are hard.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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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 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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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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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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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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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 think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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