Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
TONI MORRISONWriting is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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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Being able to laugh got me through.
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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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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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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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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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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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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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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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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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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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