All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
TONI MORRISONYou wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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All important things are hard.
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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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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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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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