All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
TONI MORRISONI want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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It was a fine cry – loud and long – but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.
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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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You are your own stories.
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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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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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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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The function of freedom is to free someone else.
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