Something that is loved is never lost.
TONI MORRISONWhat’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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You are your own stories.
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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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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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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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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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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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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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