Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
TONI MORRISONLove is never any better than the lover.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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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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I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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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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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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All important things are hard.
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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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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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