Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
TONI MORRISONI dream a dream that dreams back at me.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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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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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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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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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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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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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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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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