Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
TONI MORRISONYou are your best thing.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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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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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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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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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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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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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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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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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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