Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
TONI MORRISONYou wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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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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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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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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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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