Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
TONI MORRISONYou have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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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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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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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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Love is never any better than the lover.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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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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Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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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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