Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
TONI MORRISONIf there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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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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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race – scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct, it has a social function, racism.
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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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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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You are your best thing.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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