She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
TONI MORRISONAnything dead coming back to life hurts.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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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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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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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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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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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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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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