A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
TONI MORRISONLet your face speak what’s in your heart.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn’t have each other you had nothing.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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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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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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Let your face speak what’s in your heart.
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
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All art is knowing when to stop.
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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 wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
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Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn’t even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.
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If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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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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What a woman. What a life.
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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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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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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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The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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You have to be a little tough, and rely on yourself. And tell people ‘No’.
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