Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
TONI MORRISONShe learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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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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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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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 are your own stories.
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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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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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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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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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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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