She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
TONI MORRISONWhat a woman. What a life.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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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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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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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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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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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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What a woman. What a life.
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I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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