I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
TONI MORRISONLiterature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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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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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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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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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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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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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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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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