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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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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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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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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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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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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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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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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