A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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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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I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can’t teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
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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 there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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All important things are hard.
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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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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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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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