All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
TONI MORRISONLonely was much better than alone.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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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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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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All important things are hard.
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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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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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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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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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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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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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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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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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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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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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