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.
TONI MORRISONSomething that is loved is never lost.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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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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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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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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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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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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Something that is loved is never lost.
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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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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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