I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
TONI MORRISONFrom my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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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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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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