Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
TONI MORRISONYou are your best thing.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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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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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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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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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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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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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 type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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