All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
TONI MORRISONThe pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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You are your own stories.
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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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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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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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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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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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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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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.
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