All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
TONI MORRISONWhat a woman. What a life.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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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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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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You are your best thing.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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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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All important things are hard.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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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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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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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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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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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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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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All art is knowing when to stop.
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