Being able to laugh got me through.
TONI MORRISONI wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
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It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.
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A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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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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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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Something that is loved is never lost.
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I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
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What’s the world for you if you can’t make it up the way you want it?
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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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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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