It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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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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You are your own stories.
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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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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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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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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough.
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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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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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I didn’t want to speak for black people. I wanted to speak to and to be among. It’s us.
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