Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
TONI MORRISONI get angry about things, then go on and work.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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 didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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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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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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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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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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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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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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