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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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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You are your best thing.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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You are your own stories.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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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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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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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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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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