The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
TONI MORRISONDefinitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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All important things are hard.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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What a woman. What a life.
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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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Love is never any better than the lover.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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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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I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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You are your own stories.
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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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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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