Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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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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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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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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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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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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Being able to laugh got me through.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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