I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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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What a woman. What a life.
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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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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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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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Lonely was much better than alone.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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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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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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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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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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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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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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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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