There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
TONI MORRISONAnything dead coming back to life hurts.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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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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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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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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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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All important things are hard.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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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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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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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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