Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
TONI MORRISONShe learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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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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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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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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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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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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