I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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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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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All important things are hard.
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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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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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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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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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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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You are your best thing.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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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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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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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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What a woman. What a life.
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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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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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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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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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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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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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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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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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