A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double.
TONI MORRISONI wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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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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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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You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.
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I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
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Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
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You are your own stories.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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All important things are hard.
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My theory is that the world is a difficult place to live in and distraction is the name of the game.
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In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
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Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.
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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
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