We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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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 want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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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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Lonely was much better than alone.
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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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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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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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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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