The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
TONI MORRISONFrom my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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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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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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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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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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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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