You are your own stories.
TONI MORRISONIt is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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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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And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
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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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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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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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