It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
TONI MORRISONLove is never any better than the lover.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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You are your best thing.
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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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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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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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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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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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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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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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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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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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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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