You are your own stories.
TONI MORRISONWe mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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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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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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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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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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The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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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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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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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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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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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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