We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
TONI MORRISONI didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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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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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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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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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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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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Lonely was much better than alone.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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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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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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