A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
TONI MORRISONYou have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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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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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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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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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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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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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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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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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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