But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
TONI MORRISONI get angry about things, then go on and work.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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You are your best thing.
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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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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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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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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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What a woman. What a life.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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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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