All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
TONI MORRISONI always know the ending; that’s where I start.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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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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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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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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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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