There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
TONI MORRISONOppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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All important things are hard.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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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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All art is knowing when to stop.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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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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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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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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