If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
TONI MORRISONYou are your best thing.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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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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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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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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All important things are hard.
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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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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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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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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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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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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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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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