It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
TONI MORRISONWhat a woman. What a life.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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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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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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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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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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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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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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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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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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