Love is never any better than the lover.
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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You are your own stories.
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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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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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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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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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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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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What a woman. What a life.
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