A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
TONI MORRISONAnd I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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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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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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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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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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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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