To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
TONI MORRISONLonely was much better than alone.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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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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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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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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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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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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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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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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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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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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