A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
TONI MORRISONAnything dead coming back to life hurts.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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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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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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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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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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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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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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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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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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All important things are hard.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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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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