Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
TONI MORRISONAll paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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Writing is really a way of thinking–not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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You are your best thing.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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I’ve spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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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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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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What a woman. What a life.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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