A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
TONI MORRISONYou are your best thing.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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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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If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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