I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
TONI MORRISONBlack people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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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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If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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You are your best thing.
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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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All important things are hard.
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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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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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