And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
TONI MORRISONThe ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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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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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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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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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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You are your best thing.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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