What a woman. What a life.
TONI MORRISONMe and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.
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Black people’s music is in a class by itself and always has been.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
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You are your own stories.
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We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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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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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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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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I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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