At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
TONI MORRISONAll water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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You are your own stories.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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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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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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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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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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What a woman. What a life.
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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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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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All important things are hard.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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