It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
TONI MORRISONThe peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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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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Something that is loved is never lost.
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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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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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