Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
TONI MORRISONAnger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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What a woman. What a life.
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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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All art is knowing when to stop.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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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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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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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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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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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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