The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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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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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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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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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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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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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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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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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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