Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
TONI MORRISONLove is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Make a difference about something other than yourselves.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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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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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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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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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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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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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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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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