You are your best thing.
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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.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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You are your best thing.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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You are your own stories.
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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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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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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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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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Perhaps that’s what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?
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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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Beloved, you are my sister, you are my daughter, you are my face; you are me.
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