From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
TONI MORRISONBeing able to laugh got me through.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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You are your best thing.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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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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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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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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Something that is loved is never lost.
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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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