The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
TONI MORRISONFor me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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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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Being able to laugh got me through.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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