You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
TONI MORRISONSometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don’t feel safe.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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You are your best thing.
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Misery don’t call ahead. That’s why you have to stay awake – otherwise it just walks on in your door.
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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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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
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Lonely was much better than alone.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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All important things are hard.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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I get angry about things, then go on and work.
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Love is never any better than the lover.
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Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.
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The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.
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