Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
TONI MORRISONWriting is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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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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Something that is loved is never lost.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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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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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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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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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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