She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
TONI MORRISONIf 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.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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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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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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Love is never any better than the lover.
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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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You are your own stories.
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What a woman. What a life.
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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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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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