All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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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Something that is loved is never lost.
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You are your best thing.
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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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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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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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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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