What a woman. What a life.
TONI MORRISONLet your face speak what’s in your heart.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
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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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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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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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A writer’s life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.
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Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.
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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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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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He wants to put his story next to hers.
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For me the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex and beautiful. And impactful.
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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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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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