Being able to laugh got me through.
Interpretation
Laughter can be a powerful tool for coping with difficult situations.
Toni Morrison emphasizes the importance of humor and laughter as a means of resilience in challenging times. The quote suggests that finding joy, even in adversity, can provide strength and comfort, helping individuals to navigate through life's difficulties.
In practice
In a speech about overcoming adversity, this quote could highlight the importance of maintaining a sense of humor.
There is a certain kind of peace that is not merely the absence of war. It is larger than that. The peace I am thinking of is not at the mercy of history's rule, nor is it a passive surrender to the status quo. The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one -- an activity that occurs most naturally, most often in the reading/writing world we live in. Accessible as it is, this particular kind of peace warrants vigilance.
You looking good." "Devil's confusion. He lets me look good long as I feel bad.
What do you say? There really are no words for that. There really aren't. Somebody tries to say, 'I'm sorry, I'm so sorry.' People say that to me. There's no language for it. Sorry doesn't do it. I think you should just hug people and mop their floor or something.
An innocent man is a sin before God. Inhuman and therefore untrustworthy. No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind, the foul air of his innocence, even if it did wilt rows of angel trumpets and cause them to fall from their vines.
Like friendship, hatred needed more than physical intimacy; it wanted creativity and hard work to sustain itself
One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to.
My first words, as I was being born [...] I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I'm going up one of those.
Let a smile be your umbrella, and you'll end up with a face full of rain.
Nothing like a little judicious levity.
If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you open to my ideas
Gravity”: “It’s the story of how George Clooney would rather float away into space and die then spend one more minute with a woman his own age.
Isn’t it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do “practice”?
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