All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
TONI MORRISONToday is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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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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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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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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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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All important things are hard.
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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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You are your own stories.
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