If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
TONI MORRISONWhat’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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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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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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