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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.

Toni Morrison

I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
TONI MORRISON

Fall In Love Love One Liner Rose
Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
TONI MORRISON

Future Inspirational Present
To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
TONI MORRISON

Choose Freedom Love Permission Place
From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
TONI MORRISON

Chance Destiny Inspirational Life Miracle Shape Wait
He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
TONI MORRISON

Value Women Yourself
I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
TONI MORRISON

Book Dominant Life Spend Try White Writing
The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
TONI MORRISON

Dance Engagement Equality Open Minded Peace Thinking
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.
TONI MORRISON

Concept Enemy Men World
Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
TONI MORRISON

Angry Aware Love Presence Reality Worth
In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work.
TONI MORRISON

Artist Choose Silence Time Work
The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
TONI MORRISON

Ability Imagination Power Strange Writing
Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
TONI MORRISON

Man People Safe Stupidity Violence Weakness Wicked
There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
TONI MORRISON

Amount Black Lives Matter Magic Men
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.
TONI MORRISON

Children Need Parents Raise Thinking Village
In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
TONI MORRISON

Country White
Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
TONI MORRISON

Beg Deep Inspirational Love Self Respect

Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.

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