Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
TONI MORRISONThe function of freedom is to free someone else.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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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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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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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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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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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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