Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
TONI MORRISONMake a difference about something other than yourselves.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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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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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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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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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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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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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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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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