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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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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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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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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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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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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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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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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