I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
TONI MORRISONAnd I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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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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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 dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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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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You are your best thing.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.
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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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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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