Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
TONI MORRISONLonely was much better than alone.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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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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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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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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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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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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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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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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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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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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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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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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