It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
TONI MORRISONFor me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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 have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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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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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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He can’t value you more than you value yourself.
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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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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
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You are your best thing.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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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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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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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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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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