From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.
TONI MORRISONIt is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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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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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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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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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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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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You are your best thing.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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