Love is never any better than the lover.
TONI MORRISONBeing able to laugh got me through.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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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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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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You are your own stories.
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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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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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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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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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