You are your best thing.
TONI MORRISONA writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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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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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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