But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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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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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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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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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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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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What a woman. What a life.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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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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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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All important things are hard.
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