Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
TONI MORRISONI get angry about things, then go on and work.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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You are your own stories.
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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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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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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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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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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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