If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
TONI MORRISONIt is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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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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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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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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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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All important things are hard.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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You are your own stories.
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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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