A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
TONI MORRISONI want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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You are your own stories.
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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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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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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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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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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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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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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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