Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
TONI MORRISONMisery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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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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You are your own stories.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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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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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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