Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
TONI MORRISONBeauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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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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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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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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Being able to laugh got me through.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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You are your own stories.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, 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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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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