Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
TONI MORRISONNavigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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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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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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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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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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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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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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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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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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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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