I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
TONI MORRISONBlack women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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What a woman. What a life.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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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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There’s a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises. If you write for life, you’ll work hard; you’ll do what’s honest, not what pays.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.
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