Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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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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What a woman. What a life.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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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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All art is knowing when to stop.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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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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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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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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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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