People are so fearful about opening themselves up. All you want to do is to be able to connect with other people. When you connect with other people, you connect with something in yourself. It makes you feel happy. And yet it's so scary - it makes people feel vulnerable and unsafe.


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She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back ...
TONI MORRISON
The most destructive thing we can possibly do in life is to make another person doubt his worth and ...
TONI SORENSON
I am fed up with men who use sex like a sleeping pill.
TONI BRAXTON
I'm not a diva. I'm a tadpole trying to be a frog.
TONI BRAXTON
It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year,
TONI BRAXTON
Beauty and the Beast
TONI BRAXTON
The first two albums, I think I was a young adult, ... Now I definitely feel like an adult. I feel l...
TONI BRAXTON
Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of ...
TONI MORRISON
There's a little shoulder, a little bit of my back out, ... They've really gone out of their way to ...
TONI BRAXTON
He Wasn't Man Enough,
TONI BRAXTON
How could an Angel break my heart? Why didn't he catch my falling star? I wish I didn't wish so hard...
TONI BRAXTON
It was a fine cry - loud and long - but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles...
TONI MORRISON
I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just rem...
TONI MORRISON
The males somehow cue in to the cascade of hormonal changes going on in their pregnant mates.
TONI ZIEGLER
It was a close game until that (basket) started looking like a garbage truck and whatever we threw u...
TONI KUKOC
nothing more than his personal opinion.
TONI ATKINS
We're all somewhat disturbed and quite surprised to see this information, ... I think it means we're...
TONI ATKINS
You have to know what you have and how it's categorized to have that discussion, so it's pretty high...
TONI ATKINS
I think the City Council authorized the manager to do this and that this is the right way to go, ......
TONI ATKINS
I think it's just going to make North Park a cultural hub in the city, ... and people will start com...
TONI ATKINS
I think we're on the same page, ... We want to move the city forward.
TONI ATKINS
However, his opinion involves a lawsuit seeking millions of dollars in damages from the citizens of ...
TONI ATKINS
It is irresponsible for the city attorney, who has been elected to protect the interests of the city...
TONI ATKINS
What has caused the damage is Ms. Atkins' misconduct, not the uncovering of Ms. Atkins' misconduct.
TONI ATKINS
The citizens of San Diego are opening their hearts, their homes and certainly are opening their arms...
TONI ATKINS
(Love) is easily the most empty cliché, the most useless word, and at the same time the most powerf...
TONI MORRISON
We are still actively engaged in discussions about Hughes with multiple interested parties. Those di...
TONI SIMONETTI
I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
TONI MORRISON
Dell has done so well that it's become an 800-pound gorilla. But it's hard to grow an 800-pound gori...
TONI DUBOISE
If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
TONI MORRISON
Bit by bit . . . she had claimed herself. Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that...
TONI MORRISON
All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
TONI MORRISON
The loneliest woman in the world is the woman without a close woman friend
TONI MORRISON
(Love) is easily the most empty cliché, the most useless word, and at the same time the most powerf...
TONI MORRISON
Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me
TONI MORRISON
She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to ...
TONI MORRISON
Bryn Mawr had done what a four-year dose of liberal education was designed to do: unfit her for eigh...
TONI MORRISON
Most of our lives are spent in little towns, little towns all throughout the country. That's where w...
TONI MORRISON
There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take ...
TONI MORRISON
As a writer reading, I came to realize the obvious: the subject of the dream is the dreamer
TONI MORRISON
And like any artist with no art form, she became dangerous.
TONI MORRISON
If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. ...
TONI MORRISON
If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to wri...
TONI MORRISON
Potato? Why the potato? Couldn't they think of anything more original? To me that's what the average...
TONI MILLER
In 1969, I wrote a musical called 'Mother Earth.' It was a rock musical with an ecology them...
TONI TENNILLE