A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
TONI MORRISONA friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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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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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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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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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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