Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
TONI MORRISONLonely was much better than alone.
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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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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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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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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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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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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You are your best thing.
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