Being able to laugh got me through.
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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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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What a woman. What a life.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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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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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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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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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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Lonely was much better than alone.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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