What a woman. What a life.
TONI MORRISONToday is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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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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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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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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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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All important things are hard.
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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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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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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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