Being able to laugh got me through.
TONI MORRISONA sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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You are your best thing.
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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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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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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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Love is never any better than the lover.
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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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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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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
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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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