All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
TONI MORRISONI wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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I dream a dream that dreams back at me.
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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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Liberation means you don’t have to be silenced.
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I always know the ending; that’s where I start.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
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Being able to laugh got me through.
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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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A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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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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Passion is never enough; neither is skill.
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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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