Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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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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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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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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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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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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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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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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